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
This North Carolina river was the site of a 39,000 ton coal ash spill which led to the Coal Ash Management Act.
Dan River
This Australian rock band named itself after two different currents of electricity.
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
This “-ism” is the branch of physics that describes the physical interaction between electrically charged particles
Electromagnetism
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
A freestanding bell tower in Italy, famous for its accidental four-degree tilt.
Leaning Tower of Pisa
This 80's star 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
The SI derived unit of electrical conductance. This unit is the reciprocal of resistance and is named after the founder of a German electrical and telecommunications company
Siemens
Despite its rocky start, this station in Indiana successfully converts coal into synthetic gas to generate electricity.
Edwardsport IGCC
In 1940, high winds twisted this bridge in the Pacific Northwest until it tore apart due to aeroelastic flutter.
Tacoma Narrows Bridge
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
A faint glow, hissing noise, and energy loss caused when high voltage breaks down the insulating air around a conductor
Corona
This nation built the world's first nuclear power plant to supply electricity to a public grid in June 1954.
Soviet Union
On April 20, 2010, methane gas from an oil well expanded into this drilling rig operated by BP in the Gulf of Mexico.
Deepwater Horizon
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
The process by which electrical energy is transformed into mechanical energy by a motor.
Electromagnetic Induction
This station is the most recent large (>100Mw) coal-burning facility to be commissioned in the U.S.
Sandy Creek Energy Station in Texas
This telescope had to be repaired following its launch into space, due to incorrect primary mirror dimensions.
Hubble Space Telescope
This was the amount of power needed to send Marty back to 1985. It came from a bolt of lightning.
1.21 Gigawatts