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Electrician

What is this job like? Without these workers, there would be no lights, no computers, and no TVs plugged into our walls. Electricians bring us electricity. They put in the wires that carry…

Wilson, Benjamin

(Encyclopedia) Wilson, Benjamin, 1721–88, English portrait painter and electrician who opposed Benjamin Franklin's theory of positive and negative electricity. Instead, Wilson supported Newton's…

Sloane, T(homas) O'Conor

(Encyclopedia) Sloane, T(homas) O'Conor, 1851–1940, American scientist, lecturer, writer, and periodical editor, Ph.D. Columbia, 1876. Sloane was a member of the editorial staff of the Scientific…

Citrine, Walter McLennan Citrine, 1st Baron

(Encyclopedia) Citrine, Walter McLennan Citrine, 1st BaronCitrine, Walter McLennan Citrine, 1st Baronsĭtrēnˈ [key], 1887–1983, English trade union leader. An electrician, he became district secretary…

Tesla, Nikola

(Encyclopedia) Tesla, NikolaTesla, Nikolatĕsˈlə [key], 1856–1943, American electrician and inventor, b. Croatia (then an Austrian province). An ethnic Serb, he immigrated to the United States in 1884…

Wałęsa, Lech

(Encyclopedia) Wałęsa, LechWałęsa, Lechlĕkh väwĕnˈzə [key], 1943–, Polish labor and political leader. He worked as an electrician at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk but was dismissed in 1976 for his…

Gaffer and Grip

The Question: In the movies, what's a gaffer and what's a grip? The Answer: The gaffer is the head electrician in a movie crew; it's her job to…

Jean Charles de Menezes, 2005 News

27-year-old Brazilian electrician, was shot and killed by London police who thought he was a suspect in the July 7 terrorist attacks on the city's transit system. Authorities later…

Alexander Graham Bell

Name at birth: Alexander BellAlexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, simple as that. Born and educated in Scotland, he was the son of Alexander Melville Bell, who was the inventor of "visible…