high-voltage generator

There he was, a high-voltage generator next to me in the dark.

Electrostatic induction was used in the past to build high-voltage generators known as Influence machines.

It seemed to vibrate in the air around him as if someone had plugged him into a high-voltage generator.

A deep, irresistible hum, like a high-voltage generator.

The intercom worked well during the whole afternoon, as did the high-voltage generator, which lit a pair of Geissler tubes brilliantly.

Tracy chases The Claw to a high-voltage generator, and the killer is killed by an electric shock when he touches a wire with his hook.

Each electron accelerator consists of a long row of doughnut-shaped magnetic induction cells, each connected to a high-voltage generator.

Venom ultimately tackles Carnage into high-voltage generators, rendering Carnage unconscious and allowing his capture by the Avengers.

In Lightning Fields he uses a high-voltage generator to release 400,000-volt charges of electricity on to specially prepared photographic paper to produce enlarged images of light particles.

Among the items produced were amplifiers, spark-gap transmitters, aircraft compasses, high-voltage generators, bomb release apparatus, and fuses for artillery shells and bombs.

He also noted that similarly "a person, electrified by connection to a high-voltage generator, would not bleed normally if he were to cut himself; blood would spray from the wound."

The giant Swedish-Swiss power company recently announced a novel type of gearless windmill that converts turbine rotation to energy by means of a magnet-run, transformerless high-voltage generator.

On stage practically nonstop, the role requires a series of classic vaudevillian slapstick routines and pratfalls, all of which Mr. Butera handles as though he were plugged into a high-voltage generator.

A few radios used a bulkier and more expensive motor-generator or motor-alternator set called a "dynamotor" that spun a high-voltage generator or alternator using a 6 or 12V DC motor.

Illustration from Report on Van de Graaff Generator From "Progress Report on the M.I.T. High-Voltage Generator at Round Hill"

President Clinton and Yasir Arafat, partners in the Middle East peace process and high-voltage generators of controversy, appeared today at an ecumenical prayer breakfast, testing the faith and charity of hundreds of guests.