Science Art: Woodhouse & Rawson Electrical Lighting & Apparatus ad, 1890
Advertisements from the 1800s are usually visually striking, but this one is really something else – from the loopy lettering to the drama of the […]
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These recycled lithium-ion batteries are outperforming new ones.
IEEE Spectrum reports on a research team that has created a new method for recycling the environmentally risky chemicals used in lithium-ion batteries – the […]
Science Art: Phone Tester for Electric Circuits, Patent No. 1,187,500; issued to G. B. Raymond.
These are not headphones, exactly. This is a thing made of telephone parts designed to help electrical tinkerers do better tinkering. It’s from a page […]
Wooden flooring that generates electricity.
The Guardian reports on Swiss scientists who have taken ordinary wood floor planks, coated them with silicon and embedded nanocrystals, and then stepped on them […]
Wave power is surging ahead.
Scientific American reports on new advances made by a team of Portuguese researchers toward getting electricity from the endless motion of the ocean: Waves alone […]
A magnetic helmet (that you can wear at home) just shrank a brain tumor.
Houston Methodist Neurological Institute is proud to share the results of the first human trial of a magnet helmet that generates an oscillating magnetic field […]
Today’s batteries are better.
Ars Technica busts a long-running myth about batteries – that they’re always five years away from any real improvement – with a look at how […]
Science Art: Alternator by Ganz & Co, 1905
This is a Wechselstrommaschine, an alternator. The wheel goes around, and the spokes hit contacts – one set makes the electricity go in one direction […]
Science Art:Induction Coil Cutaway, 1920
Click to embiggen From Harry Winfield Secor’s The How and Why of Radio Apparatus, from the Experimenter Publishing Co., which you can read here. Electricity […]
Hot electric-car batteries recharge in 10 minutes.
Nature has research (from Joule) that brings us closer to an electric filling station for battery-powered cars, thanks to the discovery that raising the temperature […]
Anti-aging electrotherapy zaps earlobes to reset nerves.
Eurekalert has details on a new anti-aging system that, according to University of Leeds researchers, resets older folks’ autonomic nervous system by stimulating the vagus […]
Science Art: Coronal plasma on an ionization tube in operation, by BentaxGermany, 2013
Click to embiggen vastly If it looks like a miniature sun, maybe that’s because on one level it is – it’s creating plasma, which surrounds […]
Science Art: Electricity: condenser jars, an electro-static generator, and a vase with flowers, c. 1850.
Click to embiggen. A goache painting from the Wellcome Collection. A rather polite setting of research equipment with a bouquet. No idea whose, or what […]
Science Art: Tesla Coil: high-frequency discharge demonstrator, Welch Scientific Company, 1931
Click to embiggen Electrical history from PW Lanier and the Minneapolis Institute of Art: This tabletop Tesla coil was likely made for science classes, producing […]
Scanner helmet lets brain patients move around. (And look like warriors from Krull.)
The Guardian has a game-changing invention for neurologists and anyone who needs a brain-scan done – a wearable helmet that lets you walk around – […]