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Meanings of electric generator in English

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Usage of electric generator in English
1
In this system the electric generator is stationary, and remains outside the building.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 483, April 4, 1885
2
And yes, an electric generator and an electric motor are essentially the same.
Wired
3
A small electric generator fed the battery that kept his cell phone alive.
Phoenix noir
4
The first system uses an electric generator with a turbine driven by the exhaust.
Wired
5
There was a faint, monotonous murmur of the electric generator.
Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1930
6
It's a wind-rotor, and under it there's an electric generator.
Omnilingual
7
Each would heat a working fluid that would drive a turbine hitched to an electric generator.
Wired
8
They lowered these probes vertically into the two pits and connected them to an electric generator.
Wired
9
There was a Diesel engine that drove an electric generator and pumped water from the creek.
A Town like Alice
10
The only thing that couldn't be broken down into a donkey load was the electric generator.
The Guardian
11
Behind her, an electric generator was humming softly, providing power to the faint lights arrayed up above.
Ghost in the Shell
12
The bunker was equipped with an electric generator, and enough food and water to last for a month.
One minute to midnight: kennedy, khrushchev, and castro on the b...
13
Such a telephone is at once the simplest known form of electric generator or motor for alternating currents.
Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 1 / A General Refer...
14
In 2007, the Associated Press obtained a Homeland Security video which showed a small electric generator being disabled remotely.
Wired
15
The former had been shown no mercy, but the computer, telecommunications console, sound-removal equipment, and electric generator were untouched.
Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world: a novel
16
Dropping into the cabin, he fired the electric generator into life and felt the vibration through the steel hull.
The coldest blood
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