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"Basically, I designed a system that uses magnets and thermo-electricity to disperse the heat of the microprocessors in a computer with no fan, and therefore, no noise," Kausevic said.
Esther J. Cepeda: Incubating the Scientists and Engineers of Tomorrow -- Today! 2009
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Germany; he is the discoverer of thermo-electricity and of several physical truths.
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It gives magnetic polarity to the earth, and directs the needle by its influence; for magnetic attraction is only an effect of the earth's thermo-electricity, excited by the sun's rays acting in
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 Various
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This apparatus will indicate very slight currents; in fact, as feeble ones as the student will have occasion to experiment with, such as induced currents, currents of thermo-electricity, and currents produced by exceedingly weak batteries.
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This branch of thermo-electricity has received from us but little attention.
Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various
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There is still another kind, thermo-electricity, that may be generated in a most simple manner.
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences 1904
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Two years later, he called attention to the value of thermo-electricity as a mode of generating a current by means of heat, and since then a variety of thermo-piles have been invented, some of which have proved of considerable advantage.
Heroes of the Telegraph John Munro 1889
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Electricity generated by heat is called thermo-electricity.
Tin Foil and Its Combinations for Filling Teeth Henry Lovejoy Ambler 1883
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In 1826 Thomas Seebeck discovered thermo-electricity, and six years subsequently Peltier made an observation which comes with singular felicity to our aid in determining the material used up in the formation of the thermo-electric current.
Fragments of science, V. 1-2 John Tyndall 1856
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The establishment of the principle that a certain electrolytic intensity is necessary before decomposition can be effected, is of great importance to all those considerations which arise regarding the probable effects of weak currents, such for instance as those produced by natural thermo-electricity, or natural voltaic arrangements in the earth.
Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 Michael Faraday 1829
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