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No business has invested more money -- or creativity -- in education than New England Electric Wire Corp.
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There is something that is the equivalent of friction inside electric wire.
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All the compounds are surrounded by high fences, most of the walls wearing garlands of electric barbed wire.
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Michael Faraday discovered in 1831 that an electric current flowing in a wire induces a secondary current in a neighbouring wire.
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Creating a magnetic field using electricity is easy: an electric current flowing in a wire generates a magnetic field around that wire.
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Similarly, moving a magnet creates an electric current in a neighbouring wire.
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The other arm carries a wire coil attached to an electric circuit in other words, an electromagnet.
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Electric currents could convey sound along a wire if they undulated in accordance with the sound waves.
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If the animal comes into contact with the wire, it feels a small electric shock.
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An AC electric motor is a smallish hunk of metal wrapped in wire.
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Lethal electric fences, however, use a continuous current that can make a person lock on to the wire as voltage causes involuntary muscle contractions, paralysis and death.
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