Even though several breakthroughs in Chemistry were achieved by them, the Curie’s are known to majority of the world for their revolutionary work on radioactivity. However, it is amazing to know that one of their discoveries has given one of the most common accessories any kitchen has. Not related to radioactivity, this is the Gas Lighter. Based on the principle of piezoelectricity, which is one of the discoveries made by Jacques Curie and Pierre Curie. Piezoelectric lighters are an economic solution to light gas stoves. Ever wondered how does a small force of thumb produces a spark of the order of kilo volts (kV)? Let’s have a look on the insides and working of the lighter in this device dissection article.
Insight – How Liquid Mosquito Repellent Works
Mosquitoes have been a big problem in urban and rural areas. Carriers of deadly diseases like malaria, dengue and chikungunya, mosquitoes pose a serious health threat to humans. Among the several toxic and non toxic methods that have been devised to keep the mosquitoes away, mosquito repellents are one of the most economic and widely used. Using a simple electrical heater, a refill that contains a liquid which disrupts normal activity of mosquitoes, one can get relieved from these small creatures within minutes.
Insight – How Telephone Works
“Mr. Watson, I want you here”, Alexander Graham Bell knew so well that he has created a revolution when he said these words after testing his telephone experiment. It was the first of its kind and an invention that revolutionized the way we communicate with people separated by geographic distances and barriers. Years after its invention, telephones have penetrated almost every nook and corner of this world and a large proportion of these connections are landline phones. Once a luxury, telephones aremore of a habit now, indispensible requirement of any 20th century citizen.
Insight – How Mechanical Lever Lock Works
With every possession comes a natural urge to protect it with all the might, protect it with every possible barrier that he could invent. One of the last bulwarks to this line of security has been the simple yet efficient, padlock. Padlocks were one of the very first mechanical inventions that were designed to protect the assets and houses. A very high degree of key specificity makes the chances of having one key working with more than one lock highly unlikely. In order to use it, there is no complicated mechanism unlike setting a password of 6 characters or more and then always remembering them, but a simple key. All one has to do is to insert appropriate key to engage or release the lock. Simple enough? But is it really that simple from the inside? Let’s find out. Why does every lock has its own unique key?
Insight – How Headphones with Microphone works
When the internet computing era was catching pace, it was speculated that people might get distant from their loved ones and will immerse themselves in the computer mania. However, the manner in which internet has brought people close is quite amazing. Now important meetings don’t require one to travel long distances. They can be scheduled through video conferencing, just with a click of the mouse. The medical experts at New York City can directly involve themselves in an operation conducted at Nairobi. Several more applications are there that display tremendous ways in which internet based audio-video solutions have got people all over the world closer to each other. All these things might seem magic to a computer illiterate, but this is something that computer savvy people use every day.
Insight – How Electronic Gas Lighter works
Every big fire starts as a little spark.“Spark”, has been the first step of mankind towards progress and prosperity. Spark from the stones that created the first fire; fire gave ability to mould and soften things. Even today, one needs a little spark to set things off, from firing furnaces for extraction of metals to sending an airship to the space, to cooking our supper. Without a spark there would be no fire, and without a fire, fuel would not burn. If fuel would not burn, then energy would not be released, and if there is no energy release, most things of the today’s world would come to a screeching halt. One such device that ignites fuel in our day to day activities, especially in the kitchen, is the electric lighter.Now, most kitchens depending on LPG are already equipped with a piezoelectric lighter, so why would one want to switch over to an electric variant? Why use something that runs on batteries when we have something that can run without it? Electronic gas lighters are relatively lighter and have replaceable batteries.
Insight – How Membrane Keypad Works
Keypads have integrated deep into everyday schedule of an average person that it is almost impossible to carry out working on electronic devices without using them. Computer keyboards, calculators, remote controls, game joysticks, electronic locks and ATM machines are just a few cases where one cannot do even a single task without using keypad. It becomes quite uncanny that how deeply this electronic accessory has embedded into lives of a major part of the population. Various types of keypads exist as per user’s requirements. For instance, computer and some smartphones have QWERTY keypad while calculators and simple telephones come with an alphanumeric keypad.
Insight – How Slide Switch works
Slide switches are one of the most common switches used in electrical devices. Compact sized and operable with only a finger, slide switches are important as their absence can render the device useless in absence of the capability to switch ON and OFF without having to pull the mains cord. It is uncanny to list all the applications where slide switch is used. From electrical chimneys to hand blender in the kitchen, from lamp to the toy car in the living room, slide switches are almost omnipresent.We are used to see switches and use it as a black box. But have you ever thought how does a slider of few centimeters control big machines? What happens inside the switch when it makes and breaks the connection? Is it an assembly of several even smaller components? Why does it keep on working irrespective of the environmental conditions? Let’s find out the internal as well as external features of the switch that make it work.
Insight – How Electric Beard Trimmer Works
We currently live in the era of speed and sophistication. Everything that man once developed and found to be too time consuming and cumbersome has been modified, altered and compacted to make its use more simple. To cope up with this speed, every routine work has been automated. This pursuit of professional excellence has forced people to spend less time on themselves. For example, shaving is almost a daily chore for men to ensure personal hygene and needs to be done fast. But doing so with manual razors is a time consuming job and if done to hastily, can lead to cuts and burns.But thankfully, the technology of this age offers replacement to old age instruments like manual razors and frequent visits to a barber shop by time effective handheld devices like hair clippers and beard trimmers. Unlike manual razors and scissors, trimmers are devices that cut, but don’t bite and that too in very less time.
Insight – How Dynamic Microphone Works
How loud can you shout to make yourself heard at a distance? How large is that distance? A hundred meters, a kilometer, is that it? What if you were to talk to peopleseparated by miles, could you shout that loud and kill your lungs? Or you’d rather whisper into an adjacent ear, and be heard at some other location, no matter the distance, and perhaps irrespective of time? An electronic ear that couldhelp store and transmit your voice and sound at light speeds and even ramp it up if you are too frail? Yes, such is the microphone!But how does a microphone achieve such a feat? How does it follow our rhythmic and unpredictable sounds and change them into electrical signals?Let us find out how by peering into one such device, the dynamic microphone.
Insight – How DIP Switch works
DIP switch can be defined as an array of simple two terminal On-Off electromechanical switches (Single Pole Single Throw) that are commonly used in electricity operations. The word DIP is an acronym for Dual In-line Package which means that the electrical contacts are in two rows. DIP switches are surface mountable and are used in those applications where multiple numbers of switches are involved in output generation. For instance, in a universal remote control, the DIP switch is used to set the frequency according to the device that is being operated. On a computer motherboard, DIP switches help in optimizing the clock speed and configuration settings according to the type of processor mounted.
Insight – How Pulse Transformers works
We are accustomed to using transformers in voltage stepping applications and in providing isolation to output circuits from the loading and transient effects that affect the input. These transformers work fine in most of the scenarios we encounter in day to day life, like the mobile phone charger, DC Adapter, the Step Down transformer at the nearby electrical distribution pole etc. But, when it comes to applications where square, pulse-like waveforms are required, the conventional transformers output a distorted waveform.Hence, for applications such as digital communications, camera flashes, radar systems and other fields where pulsed form of relatively high voltage is required, special type of transformers, ‘pulse transformers’ are required.
Insight – How Reed Switch works
Magnets have a natural tendency to attract many things. Though not perceived as a real force, but it does attract human attention when a force acting invisibly draws things to itself. By harnessing this power, humans have made wonderful inventions like the electromagnet and discover lossless conduction phenomenon like superconductivity. Among these many inventions, was the application of magnetism to switch from ON state to OFF and vice-versa in precision devices. One such switching device, which works not by the principles of electricity, but magnetism, is the Reed Switch.
Insight – How Scientific Calculator works
Scientific calculators are more of a habit for any engineer. Loaded with features that can solve complicated trigonometric, logarithmic and exponentia. The first scientific calculator was released in late 1960s by Hewlett Packard and numerous electronic manufacturers followed suit. Initially expensive and feature restricted, engineers have continually crammed more and more features into that little space as the semiconductor manufacturing industry continues to mature.Most of the scientific calculators, irrespective of the manufacturer, come in a hard plastic casing as shown above. The layout of the buttons is neat and ergonomic so that calculators can be used for long time without posing any risk of strain to the wrist and also ensuring correct key stroke each time, irrespective of the finger size pressing them.Let’s find out what makes this small sized gadget tick.
Insight – How SD Memory Card Reader Works
Secure Digital (SD) format is used by all major digital memory manufacturing companies of the world including giants like Sony and Siemens. SD cards are available in various memory capacities, sizes and data transfer speeds. The maximum size of the cards is that of SD or SD HC cards and the smaller ones require an adapter that scales them exactly to the size of a standard SD card.While most modern Laptops come with inbuilt SD card readers, devices that have only USB inputs require some kind of reading device to access or modify the data in the cards. SD card readers solve this purpose. SD card can be inserted inside the card slot in the readers which have a USB interface to connect to the desktop.
Insight – How electrical Line Tester screwdriver works
Testers are one of the simplest solutions, used to test current and voltage continuity in any circuit. Indispensible for any electrician, the testers are very simple and interesting devices. This article will explore the internal structure of one such commonly used circuit tester.The user is required to be on the floor while using the tester so that he can serve as ground when current flows. In order to test the live wire, the user’s body must be in contact with the metal cap on the top of the screwdriver when the tester is put in contact with the wire. This completes a genuine electrical circuit and the bulb will light up once the tester senses voltage.
Insight – How Laptop Cooling Pad works
With time and usage, many laptops face a common problem of overheating. It not only reduces efficiency of the laptop but can also cause damage to laptop peripherals such as hard disks or microprocessor. In order to assist laptop cooling fans, USB powered cooling pads have caught the fancy of computer enthusiasts and are widely in demand all over. Light weighted and economic, cooling pads boast of keeping the laptops temperatures within tolerable limits even during prolonged spells of extensive usage. Let’s have a look at a typical laptop cooling pad. The laptops are placed with the tilted side facing the user so that they can have easy access to keyboard. The laptop is held on the tilt structure through the rubber sponge pads that are placed at the edges of the cooling pad.Cooling pads are generally made of light weight plastic or aluminum mesh or a combination of both.
Insight – How Fountain Pen works
Fountain pens are known among men with a penchant for delicate and high quality calligraphy skills. These come highly recommended for anyone who is new to ink based writings.The royal touch and metallic finesse with which these pens are manufactured is a soft reminder of their rich past, rendering to them an aesthetic appeal of yesteryears. Invented in the late 19th century by Lewis Waterman, fountain pens have undergone several improvisations under several legendary brands like Parker and Sheaffer. Available in multiple designs, fountain pens are very interesting objects.The internal structure of an ink pen varies with each manufacturer, but generally depends on the type of ink filling mechanisms used. Several mechanisms for ink filling exist, depending on the suction method used which could be vacuum based filling or capillary based. Mechanisms like cartridge filling, piston filling, plunger filling and squeezer filling have been widely used.
Insight – How LED Light Bulb works
LED bulbs are the future of lighting. Be it automobiles, industries, household or any hobbyist requirement, LEDs form the best solutions in terms of long-term cost savings and power efficiency. Not only are these devices more efficient than traditional lighting devices, they are built to outlast any of their lighting predecessor. The internals of a typical LED bulb will be explored here.Externally, a LED bulb might look similar to a conventional incandescent lamp, but the two are quite different. The chassis of the bulb is made of ceramic and houses the electronic ballast. Ceramic is used for its insulating and heat dissipative properties.
Insight – How Magnetic Ballast works
Magnetic ballast is an essential component in traditional discharge lamps and tubes. In order to properly start them, an initial high current is needed which needs to be limited afterwards to prevent the lamp from blowing out. This function is performed by ballast. Electro-magnetic ballasts were one of the first components that could provide sufficient starting current to fluorescent lights or low pressure tanning lamps. Although they are being replaced by much lighter and efficient, electronic ballasts, electro-magnetic ballasts are still in trend. This article will explore the structural features of the ballast and it’s working.Numerous manufacturers are producing their own customized versions of Magnetic ballasts. Depending upon the brands, size and the power requirements, ballasts can be of various types. The casing is made of Aluminum and has the specifications featured over it. On its side are two connecting plugs which connect the ballast to the fluorescent light.