Motor starting and its associated problems are well-known to many people who have worked on large industrial processes. However, these things are, of course...

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A single phase system is perhaps the most common type of system most people are familiar with. This is what people have in their homes and what appliances...

This is the second post in a series of two on periodic electrical inspections. In the first post, I discussed how often inspections should be carried out...

Famed English chemist and physicist Michael Faraday was born on September 22, 1791, in Newington Butts, a suburb of Surrey just south of the London Bridge...

Laplace transforms and their inverse are a mathematical technique which allows us to solve differential equations, by primarily using algebraic methods...

When looking at the design of a lighting scheme it is useful to have an understanding on the nature of light itself and some of the basic theory associated...

GE have put together a time-lapse video shown flight take-off and landings at some airports. An interesting view:

The mobile phone was born in 1973. They were the size of a brick and weighed a couple of kg, making them difficult to fit into your pocket. At a few thousand...

The other day I came across an article in Technology Review on the development of a smart transformer. A professor at North Carolina State University is...