All in the Mechanics
This device, an example of ancient engineering, uses stored potential energy to fling a projectile great distances.
Catapult/ Trebuchet
At the end of 1887, this company was Thomas Edison's biggest rival in the war of the currents, having 68 AC-based power stations to Edison's 121 DC-based stations.
Westinghouse Electric
It is the largest power plant in NC by installed capacity.
Roxboro Steam Station
A freestanding bell tower in Italy, famous for its accidental four-degree tilt.
Leaning Tower of Pisa
This Australian rock band named itself after two different types of electrical current.
AC/DC
This three-word term refers to a hypothetical machine that can perform work indefinitely without an external energy source in violation of the laws of thermodynamics.
Perpetual-motion machine
The process by which electrical energy is transformed into mechanical energy by a motor.
Electromagnetic Induction
The largest power station in the U.S. (measured by installed capacity) is a concrete gravity dam in Washington, built to produce hydroelectric power and provide irrigation water.
Grand Coulee Dam
In 1940, high winds twisted this bridge in the Pacific Northwest until it tore apart due to aeroelastic flutter.
Tacoma Narrows Bridge
This 80's TV character employed engineering skill, physics, and a Swiss-Army knife, but never a gun.
MacGyver
This principle states that any object placed in a fluid gets an upward push called the buoyant force, which is just as heavy as the fluid the object pushes out of the way.
Archimedes' Principle
A faint glow, hissing noise, and energy loss caused when high voltage breaks down the insulating air around a conductor
Corona
Despite its rocky start, this station in Indiana successfully converts coal into synthetic gas to generate electricity.
Edwardsport IGCC
This device had to be repaired following its 1990 launch into space, due to incorrect primary mirror dimensions.
Hubble Space Telescope
This Serbian-American inventor built a laboratory in Colorado Springs in 1899 to study the use of high-voltage, high-frequency electricity in wireless power transmission. His name continues to gain popularity today.
Nikola Tesla
The point through which the whole weight of the body acts, irrespective of its position.
Center of Gravity
Measured in kilowatts, this quantity is represented by the horizontal axis of the power triangle.
Real Power
This nation built the world's first nuclear power plant to supply electricity to a public grid in June 1954.
Soviet Union
Rigid bonding technology which prevented glass panes from expanding, turned this Boston building into the infamous "Plywood Palace"
John Hancock Tower
A fictional inventor, engineer, billionaire, and philanthropist who still finds time to don his "suit" and have a social life.
Tony Stark
The tendency of a system to vibrate with a much larger amplitude when the frequency of an external force matches the system's natural frequency.
Mechanical Resonance
Utilities often penalize industrial customers for excessive demand of this type of power because it increases current without producing useful work.
Reactive Power
This station is the most recent large (>100Mw) coal-burning facility to be commissioned in the U.S.
Sandy Creek Energy Station in Texas
The Northeast blackout of 2003 was traced back to software issues within the control room of what Ohio-Based energy company.
FirstEnergy Corporation
This was the amount of power needed to send Marty back to 1985. It came from a bolt of lightning.
1.21 Gigawatts