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  • A two-wire flier is hauled around like a suitcase, safe and slow.

    Three Stations : An Arkady Renko Novel Martin Cruz Smith 2010

  • He looked Arkady up and down, “You are definitely a two-wire man.”

    Three Stations : An Arkady Renko Novel Martin Cruz Smith 2010

  • My computer is connected to my husband's plugged-in computer via a two-wire router, plus a LinkSys receiver that is hard-wired to my computer by a cable about 1.5 meters long.

    amplifier vs ethernet cable 2007

  • The top lead on a two-wire system is more typically the ground, as that’s the one that will cop it from lightning strikes most often.

    Home School Science Kylie Willison 2007

  • My one beef was that there were three of these machines with their power cords daisy chained from one to the other – the last one in line was plugged into a 3-prong to 2-prong groundlift which was plugged into one of those crappy, thin, two-wire brown 6′ extension cord… which went right into the wall.

    Think Progress » Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-OH) has trouble voting. 2006

  • Here's how the scheme (.pdf) works: Alice and Bob have a two-wire cable between them, and two resistors each -- we'll say they each have a 10-ohm and a 1,000-ohm resistor.

    Hold the Photons! 2005

  • Here's how the scheme (.pdf) works: Alice and Bob have a two-wire cable between them, and two resistors each -- we'll say they each have a 10-ohm and a 1,000-ohm resistor.

    Hold the Photons! 2005

  • So far as street railways and power transmission are concerned, I would draw your attention to the fact that the same underlying principle of multiple-arc mains and feeders originally conceived by Mr. Edison is as much a necessity in their operation as it is in the electric lighting systems, whether those systems be operated on the old two-wire plan, the three-wire plan or by means of alternating currents.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 1178, June 25, 1898 Various

  • We had two-wire underground feeders, sent without any plans or specifications for their installation.

    Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 1 1910

  • This station supplied its customers by a network of feeders and mains of the standard underground two-wire Edison tubing-conductors in sections of iron pipe -- such as was used subsequently in New York, Milan, and other cities.

    Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 1 1910

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