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PRIMAL SCREEN COVERUPS KEEP UGLY UNDER WRAPS.(AT HOME)
The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
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October 26, 1996|
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Byline: Joyce Rosencrans Post home editor
We all have something to hide at home: pet food and water bowls, a toy-strewn play area, a trash can.
Or perhaps you have a bare corner that needs some eye-catching treatment.
Think screen.
Screens may be flat furniture, but they're fundamental to clever interior design, lending dimensional form and function.
Jo Ann Lonnemann of Ft. Mitchell, Ky., hates the looks of electrical cords and outlets, so she uses well-placed floor or table screens to shield the offending power paraphernalia ...
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Make the atom Smasher Wannabe.(how to make a Leyden Jar and electrical charges)
Magazine article from: Fun For Kidz
; ...some fur, a small glass jar, some plastic pipe...Parts Needed for the Leyden Jar (stores the electrical...copper wire Making the Leyden Jar: (1) Drill an 1...hose clamp around the jar and the bolt. Before...Starts! Charging up the Leyden Jar is simple. All you...
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Willowbrook jars Leyden, ends skid
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; Maybe Willowbrook should play Leyden every day. The defending West Suburban...1 upset victory over second-ranked Leyden (17-4, 10-2) in Franklin Park...Willowbrook's second victory of the year over Leyden and snapped the Eagles' 10-game winning...
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York's DeVae jars Leyden
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...another as the Dukes (9-9) beat host Leyden 5-0 in the first-ever West Suburban...avenged a 2-0 loss to Gold Division champ Leyden (16-3-3) last Saturday. "They...We just couldn't stay with them," Leyden coach Eric Roy said. "They wanted to...
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IN A FLASH, LIGHTNING MEMORIES ARE BACK.(Lifestyle)(Column)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
; ...several huge glass olive and cherry jars that Dad had brought home from his night bartending job. Such a jar would have to hold a million jigawatts...constructing the mother of all Leyden jars. My Leyden jar antenna was a short section of...
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Plus and Minus: Franklin's Zero-Sum Way of Thinking1
Magazine article from: Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society
; ...normally present in the jar's outer surface.6 Now...a wire connected to the jar's inner coating with...theory of mistresses than of Leyden jars.7 A quarter century before...negative to bear on the Leyden jar, he had deployed them...
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The blacksmith's motor.(includes related article on rotating electric machines)(electric motor inventor Thomas Davenport)
Magazine article from: Mechanical Engineering-CIME
; ...experimented with static electricity from Leyden jars and with electricity from the sky...electricity batteries such as the Leyden jar had provided only sudden electric...relying on an erratic spark in a Leyden jar. In 1820, the Danish experimenter...
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The blacksmith's motor
Magazine article from: Mechanical Engineering
; ...experimented with static electricity from Leyden jars and with electricity from the sky...electricity batteries such as the Leyden jar had provided only sudden electric...relying on an erratic spark in a Leyden jar. In 1820, the Danish experimenter...
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Interview: Michael Brian Schiffer discusses the history of electrical discovery through the work of Benjamin Franklin
Transcript from: NPR Talk of the Nation Science Friday
; ...operation of what was then called the Leyden jar, which today we call a capacitor...SCHIFFER: Well, the capacitor, or the Leyden jar... FLATOW: Right. Prof...ingenious experiment. He used a Leyden jar that had water on the inside...
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A few famous kite fliers
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
; ...Earth and sky functioned like the conducting layers of a Leyden jar, an early form of electrical conductor. In June of...been knocked unconscious by a charge from one of his Leyden jars. He eventually learned to ground his wires. Franklin...
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SEATTLE STUDENT'S INVENTION WINS ACCOLADES AS A CHILDREN'S PROJECTSIMPLE APPARATUS CAN GENERATE LIGHTNING BOLTS.(Lifestyle)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
; ...end product is an advanced form of the 18th-century Leyden jar, which is the world's first device to store electricity...t have much homework one week and we were studying Leyden jars and capacitors in school and it just sort of happened...
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