Electricity Collection (page 100)

Plasma globe. Streamers of light inside a plasma globe. This device comprises a glass sphere filled with gas at low pressure. At its centre is a metal ball (centre) which is charged with electricity

Generator, Fawley power station, UK
Generator, Fawley power station, Hampshire, UK. Inside the generator, the rotor (an electromagnet) turns inside the stator (made up of copper bars) and creates an electric current

Solar parabolic mirrors, Cologne, Germany
Solar parabolic mirrors at the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) in Cologne, Germany. These mirrors at DLR are part of Germanys largest research group on solar concentrating technologies

Electrical fuses. 3A, 5A and 13A (A is short for ampere) fuses, designed to protect electrical devices and people from excessive currents

Pylon carrying electricity
Electricity pylon. Computer-enhanced image of an electricity pylon with glowing cables. Pylons carry the cables that transport electricity from power stations to substations

Electricity power lines, thermogram
Electricity power lines. Thermogram of electricity power lines (left to right) and power station cooling towers (centre left)

Rechargeable battery. This is a nickel cadmium battery. Batteries are chemical systems designed to store and slowly release electrical energy

Street lighting

Changing light bulb
Changing an electric light bulb

Rewirable electrical fuse. Single-bladed rewirable fuse carrier, designed to protect electrical devices and people from excessive amounts of electricity

Solar parabolic mirror, California, USA
Solar parabolic mirror. Close-up of a solar energy generating systems (SEGS) parabolic (curved) mirror in Californias Mojave desert, USA

Electricity pylons, thermogram
Electricity pylons above trees, thermogram. A thermogram shows the variation in temperature on the surface of an object, measured by the long-wave infrared radiation it emits

X-ray of light bulb
Light bulb. X-ray of an electric light bulb. Bulbs produce light from a filament (horizontal structure, upper centre). This is a finely coiled wire of tungsten which heats up

Light bulb research. Researcher holds a prototype low energy light bulb. Photographed at the research laboratory of Osram Sylvania, Massachusetts, USA

Computer artwork of high-voltage power lines
Electricity power lines. Computer artwork of high voltage electricity power lines. These cables transmit the electricity of national grid systems from power stations to local distribution sub

Power rating label. Label containing electrical power rating information on a domestic fan heater

Computer image of a full moon and pylons
Energy. Computer generated image of electricity pylons and a full moon

Induction motor with interior exposed. This type of alternating current (AC) motor comprises a static stator (pale grey casing)

Vents at Fawley power station, UK
Vents at Fawley power station, Hampshire, UK. Roof of Fawley power station, showing vents (foreground) and auxiliary safety valve silencers (background)

AC and DC power supplies displayed on the screen of an oscilloscope (centre). Direct current (DC, the straight line) is produced by the equipment at left, while alternating current (AC)

Pylons carrying electricity wires at sunset
Electricity pylons. Electricity pylons carrying high voltage wires against a background of the setting sun. The wires have to be high above the ground to prevent them interfering with land-based

Lamp, thermogram
Lamp. Thermogram of a lit lamp. The colours show variation in temperature. The scale runs from white (warmest) through red, yellow, green and blue to purple (coldest)

Virborg heat and power station
Architectural detail. Viborg Combined Heat and Power Station (CHP), Denmark

Insulators on an electricity pylon. These prevent electricity passing through to the metal frame of the pylon

Bulb research. Prototype low heat light bulb being tested within a miniature Ulbricht, or integrating, sphere. Once closed

Electrical generators. Conceptual computer artwork of bolts of electrical energy streaming from electrical generators

Gypsum storage at a power station. Piles of limestone and gypsum inside a storage building at a coal-fired power station. Gypsum (calcium sulphate)

Daniell cell battery
Daniell cell. Invented by the British chemist John Frederic Daniell (1790-1845), the Daniell cell (left) is made from two half-cells, the electrolytes of which are separated by a porous partition

Industrial power station. This is the COGEN power station at ExxonMobils Fawley Oil Refinery and Chemical Plant, Hampshire, UK

Power lines

Electric spark, positive pole. Historical artwork of the branching patterns resulting from a spark from a positive electrical pole. Artwork from A Travers l Electricite (G. Dary, Paris, 1900)

Electric spark, negative pole. Historical artwork of the branching patterns resulting from a spark from a negative electrical pole. Artwork from A Travers l Electricite (G. Dary, Paris, 1900)

Early electrical equipment, historical artwork. Most of the items are different types of batteries (technically called cells)

Batteries in 19th Century Paris
Batteries in the underground power room at the Poste Central de Paris in the 19th Century. This room housed some 9000 batteries, which provided power for the post offices machines

Static electricity experiments, historical artwork. Turning the wheel at lower right creates a charge on the man on the trapeze, which he passes to the girl on the wooden (non-conducting) block

Electricity experiment. Historical artwork of the electricity researcher Abbe (abbot) Jean Antoine Nollet conducting an experiment

Voltas battery. Historical illustration of the battery (or pile) made by the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta (1745-1827) in 1800

18th century static electricity generator
Static electricity device. 18th century engraving of a device for demonstrating static electricity and its ability to produce light

Alessandro Voltas crown of cups, an early example of Voltas pile or battery, the earliest form of battery supplying a continuous current

18th century electrostatic machine
Illustration of an eighteenth century electrostatic machine which appeared in Essai sur l electricitie des corps, by Jean Antoine Nollet, Paris 1746

Barrage balloon over Moscow, 1942
Barrage balloon over Moscow, USSR, in 1942, during World War II. War broke out between Germany and the USSR in June 1941, when Germany invaded the USSR

Turbine rotor assembly area
Turbine rotor assembly and balancing area. This is a steam turbine, for use in a power station. The pressure from steam passing through the turbine causes the turbine to rotate

Norilsk industrial centre, Russia
Industrial centre in the Arctic. This is part of the Norilsk industrial centre, in the Krasnoyarsk region of Siberian Russia

Electric locomotive pulling a passenger train. Photographed in England, UK

Oscilloscope wave forms
Oscilloscope displaying two waveform traces. An oscilloscope is a device that produces a waveform as a visual representation of oscillations or changes, usually in an electric current

Oscilloscope wave form
Oscilloscope showing a sawtooth waveform. An oscilloscope is a device that produces a waveform as a visual representation of oscillations or changes, usually in an electric current

Computer screen lighting research. Researcher comparing computer screens lit by a flat Planon lamp (left) and a traditional liquid crystal display (LCD)

Measuring electric voltage. Circuit diagram showing the arrangement of equipment used to measure the voltage (potential difference) in an electrical circuit

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