This gorgeous 20-second exposure of lightning striking the Bay Bridge in San Francisco went viral in April 2012. Clear skies rarely prevail at the mouth of the Catatumbo River in Venezuela. Here, it ...
Doug Aitken has the ability to transform everyday pictures and objects into extravagant art. As a recipient of the YoungArts award in Visual Arts in 1986, Aitken has a great understanding of art and ...
Scientists in the United States have created a small device that produces a tiny electrical signal from Earth’s natural rotation. Although the voltage is extremely small, the experiment shows that ...
The importance of bonding and grounding in commercial, industrial, and institutional buildings cannot be overstated. The grounded circuits of machines need to have an effective return path from the ...
Doug Aitken, “Electric Earth,” installation view (all images courtesy of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; all photos by Joshua White) The 35-minute centerpiece of Electric Earth, the ...
When electric fencing equipment fails to do the job this is often caused by insufficient earthing of the system, according to a leading beef and sheep grazier. Powerful energisers and high-quality ...
A DIFFICULTY in connexion with electric supply when metal sheathing of electric wiring and apparatus is employed is how to connect this sheathing to earth in such a way that, in the event of it ...