On the vehicle s test run, driven by Hiram Percy Maxim, an electric spark ignited fuel in the gasoline tank and destroyed the car.
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In an early electronic computing device, the Atanasoff-Berry Computer, electric sparks were used to singe small holes in paper cards to represent binary data.
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Officials suspected the blast to be caused by an electric spark or a short circuit which ignited fumes produced by the paint, it said.
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It might be due to not getting enough air, fuel, or electric spark, mechanical failure, or in response to a sudden increase in engine load.
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He concluded that lightning was essentially nothing more than giant electric sparks, similar to the sparks from the static charges produced by his electrostatic machine.
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While electric sparks limit the high voltage, and thus the corona power, the latter can be further increased with a help of pulse-periodic high voltages.
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The positive feedback increases the accumulating charges exponentially until the dielectric breakdown voltage of the air is reached and an electric spark jumps across the gap.
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It's a giant version of the electric spark anyone can create on a cold, dry day by shuffling across a thick carpet, then touching a doorknob.
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"When water drips on the pages of their books, when electric sparks fly every time a computer is turned on, the effect is profound, " he said.
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The men broke through an electric fence and charged downhill and across traffic in a cloud of electric sparks and tear gas, with the police in pursuit.
