Doctors and nurses gather around a life-support machine, wires connected to the bed-ridden patient.
All private wires, connected directly with Albany, Tammany Hall, and twenty-four strategic points.
Wires connected to the strip ran to a magnetic disk sutured to her scalp just above her right ear.
The baby had two I.V.s and five wires connected to her, four on her chest, one on her ankle.
The noise may be conducted along wires connected to the system, or it may be radiated through the air.
A tangle of colored wires connected the dispensers to some machinery behind them, and each dispenser was controlled at the top by a robotic arm.
The initial investigation of the attack indicated that the bomb was "command detonated," which means it was triggered by assailants via wires connected to the bomb.
If the current is alternating, electronic charge moves back and forth in the device and in the wires connected to it.
The issue of reliability is an important one downtown because the Sept. 11 attack cut off many companies, even those who had multiple carriers, because all their wires connected at 140 West Street, which was heavily damaged.
There followed a technically accurate description of the gadget, a small metal cylinder consisting of two fine wires connected to a tiny piece of semi-conductive material soldered to a metal base.
The moment was reminiscent of the 1970s and '80s, when undercover agents recorded conversations with mobsters using a bulky tape recorder strapped around their waists, and wires — connected to a microphone — secured to their chests with an adhesive.
