photoelectric

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These are devices which take light and turn it into electricity using something called the photoelectric effect.

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  • Television by radio, however, is not as advanced Original radio television was accomplished by photoelectric-cell-and-mechanical-scanning disk devices. —  072 - The Yellow Cloud
  • In most residential applications, the photoelectric or ionization type of detector is used. —  Fuck Alarms
  • The recorder utilized a magnetized steel ribbon to store messages, instead of the more conventional wax recording The ribbon yielded its message to a photoelectric-cell pick-up device. —  107 - The Rustling Death
  • On a different note, I think you'd find some people, around 1905 on, calling relativity theory "pseudoscience", and the Nobel committee avoided controversy by giving Einstein the prize for the photoelectric effect. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • For the photoelectric safety protections to be effective, it is necessary to verify that:
 

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