dynamos

• “Explain that batteries are not used to produce large currents, but that machines called dynamos, similar to motors, when driven by steam or water-power, will yield electric currents as batteries do.”

  Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study

• “In fact, Mr. Smith is one of a growing number of business travelers who, out of practicality or concern for the environment, use portable renewable energy devices - primarily portable solar panels, but also hand-cranked electricity generators known as dynamos or freeplay devices - to power up their electronics when they work in places that offer little or no access to electricity.”

  NYT > Home Page

• “Plus, everyone knows librarians are sexual dynamos waiting to explode.”

  Best/Worst Professions To Date

• “Yeah for Librarians (so true about sexual dynamos).”

  Best/Worst Professions To Date

• “In the vast chamber below him, rows of massive transformers and dynamos repeated on and on, bolts of electricity leaping from one to the next.”

  365 tomorrows » 2009 » November : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day

• “The top three prospects for the June draft include two premium offensive dynamos in Taylor Hall of the Windsor (Ontario) Spitfires and Tyler Seguin of the Plymouth (Mich.)”

  Rising Leafs: Pieces finally falling into place in Toronto

• “Still, it's a cheap $28 million film that got lousy reviews, starring those box office dynamos Jesse Eisenberg, Aziz Ansari, and Danny McBride.”

  The Huffington Post: Scott Mendelson: Weekend Box Office: Rise of the Planet of the Apes Tops Again, The Help Sizzles, Final Destination 5, 30 Minutes or Less, and Glee Live! Underwhelm

• “He taught himself radio repair and began tinkering with bicycle dynamos, hoping to understand the inner workings of generators.”

  William Kamkwamba biography

• “Playoff regulars who were high-flying, passing dynamos with flair and class.”

  Sacramento Kings Team Report

• “But there are lots of countries that have managed to become far more prosperous than present-day China without being economic dynamos clearly racing ahead.”

  Matthew Yglesias » Will China Ever Dominate?

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