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the box that keeps your fridge humming while the whole street goes dark
means A machine that converts mechanical or chemical energy into electricity, or more loosely anything that produces or brings something into being.
from From Latin 'generare,' to beget or bring forth, itself rooted in 'genus' (birth, kind, race) — the same fertile family that gives us 'generate,' 'generation,' and 'genus.' English added the agent suffix '-or,' so a generator is literally 'the thing that begets.' Fittingly, the electrical sense — a device that begets current — became common in the 19th century as electricity moved from the laboratory into everyday machinery.
- Origin trick
- Converts motion into electricity, not the reverse
- Faraday's gift
- Invented in 1831 from a spinning magnet
- Backup empire
- Hospitals legally require them to never die
- Silent killer
- Indoor use causes deadly carbon monoxide poisoning
- Code cousin
- Programmers borrowed the name for lazy value streams
tesla model 3 — electric vehicle that produces 358 hp, over 1.5 million units sold since 2017
hoover dam — hydroelectric generator on nevada-arizona border producing 2,080 megawatts of power