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unusual facts about coiled-coil



AC power

Major delineations of the concept are attributed to Stanley's Phenomena of Retardation in the Induction Coil (1888) and Steinmetz's Theoretical Elements of Engineering (1915).

Alfred Mirsky

During a sabbatical year at the California Institute of Technology, Mirsky published a paper with Linus Pauling on the general theory of protein structure, suggesting that the structure of proteins are coiled in a specific configuration that accounts for the function in the body, and that the protein is denatured when that configuration is lost by breaking the hydrogen bonds that stabilize the structure.

Autotransformer

The "auto" (Greek for "self") prefix refers to the single coil acting on itself and not to any kind of automatic mechanism.

BSA A65 Star

The decision by Lucas in the late 1950s to switch production of motorcycle electrical components (from magneto/dynamo systems to alternators/coil systems) forced British motorcycle manufacturers to completely redesign their engines.

Charles Coil

Coil was the regular pulpit minister for churches of Christ in Knobel, Arkansas; La Porte, Indiana; Florence, Alabama; El Dorado, Arkansas; and West Memphis, Arkansas.

Charvel

The instrument featured bound headstock and neck, neck-through construction, Schaller locking tremolo system, two Jackson J200 single coil pickups (neck and middle), one Jackson JC50BC humbucker at the bridge, JE-1200 mid-boost, "Toothpaste Logo" headstock, and sharkfin inlaid position markers.

Coil stamp

A large percentage of modern stamps are sold in coil form, because they are more amenable to mechanized handling in large quantities than either sheet stamps or booklet stamps.

Danny Hyde

Psychick Warriors ov Gaia: "Kraak (Coil Remix)" from Rejammed - Kraak Remixes (with Coil)

Dr. Matt Destruction

Dr. Matt typically plays a 1970s Fender Telecaster Bass which differs from the 1950s Telecaster Bass in that the bass has a humbucker rather than a single coil pickup (note: In the "Hate to Say I Told You So" music video, he plays a Rickenbacker bass) in the band's signature white/black color combo through a white Hiwatt amplifier; he almost always uses bass distortion and a pick.

Electrical length

The cabin installed at a height of 150-metres on the Blosenbergturm in Beromünster is such a construction, in which a lengthening coil is installed for the supply of the upper tower part (the Blosenbergturm has in addition a ring-shaped roof capacitor on its top)

Fender Precision Bass

The original single-coil pickup was replaced in 1957 with a new split-coil pickup with staggered polepieces, connected in a humbucking mode; however, Fender never emphasized this, as the Seth Lover patent on the humbucking pickup had not yet expired.

Gibson ES-150

Earlier pickups featured either a horseshoe magnet that arched over the strings (as found on the Rickenbacker A-22 "Frying Pan"), or a static coil through which a magnet passed, the magnet being vibrated by the guitar's bridge (a design used by former Gibson employee Lloyd Loar on his Vivi-Tone guitar).

Gloria Material Technology Corp.

Titanium alloy: Ti-Bar, Ti-Sheet, Titanium Welding Coil, Ti-Tube, Forging / Machining Parts

Gold Is the Metal with the Broadest Shoulders

In 2006, the 1996 version of the album was made available for download at Coil's official site, thresholdhouse.com, in aac, mp3, and lossless flac formats.

Hellraiser

Coil's original theme was later covered by the Italian black metal band Aborym on their debut album Kali Yuga Bizarre.

Interrupter

The physician Golding Bird designed his own interrupter circuit for delivering shocks to patients from a voltaic cell through an induction coil.

Invidia

Cesare Ripa's influential Iconologia (Rome, 1603) represented Invidia with a serpent coiled round her breast and biting her heart, "to signify her self-devouring bitterness; she also raises one hand to her mouth to show she cares only for herself".

Jean-Henri Pape

Pape concentrated on defects in square and grand pianos caused by the structural gap between the sounding board and wrest plank allowing the hammers to strike the strings; the solution of placing actions above the strings had been imagined by Marius, then Hildebrand and finally Streicher in Vienna, but instead of levers and counterweights Pape's arrangement used a coil spring to raise the hammers quickly and with almost no effect on touch.

Kathleen Peterson

Kathleen later achieved executive positions at Baltimore Air-Coil-Pritchard, Merck, and Nortel Networks, and at Nortel achieved the position of director of information services.

Kodiak Coil Tubing

Kodiak Coil Tubing is an oilfield service company incorporated in 2001, based in Alberta, Canada.

Lacolle River

It passes through the village of Lacolle by a large coil, then flows into the Richelieu River by its western shore, 4.8 km north of the border Canada-United States.

Lactamase Bonus Compilation

This album is the bonus 10" and number 13 in the Lactamase series. If you collected all 12 records in the series (Tony Conrad/Edward Ka-Spel, Rick Reed, Stimulus, Aranos, Miroslaw Rajkowski, Vas Deferens Organization, Noise-maker's Fifes, Charalambides, Troum, Whitelodge and Coil), you were able to submit all 12 coupons (1 collected in each of the other 10"s) and receive this as a bonus.

Lada Niva

Coil springs are located at each of the four wheels, and suspension is independent in front, whereas the rear axle is a 5 link live-type, with ratios between 3.90 and 4.30 depending on the model and market.

Lotus 23

The front suspension was a typical double wishbone arms with outboard coil/damper unit using the Triumph upright made by Alford & Alder, Triumph Herald rack and pinion steering, and outboard Girling non-ventilated disc brake.

Maserati 3500

suspension by Alford & Alder: Front wishbone and coil-springed suspension; rear semielliptic springs.

NAV1

The encoded protein contains coiled-coil domains and a conserved AAA domain characteristic for ATPases associated with a variety of cellular activities.

Negator

Neg'ator (registered trademark) - a type of coiled spring developed in the early 1980s, whose unique characteristic is its ability to provide a constant force regardless of its extended length.

Nicholas Callan

Callan's induction coil also used an interrupter that consisted of a rocking wire that repeatedly dipped into a small cup of mercury (similar to the interrupters used by Charles Page).

Prichard, West Virginia

In 2003, Allevard opened a coil spring and stabilizer bar plant in Prichard originally employing approximately 90 people.

Rabaptin

Rabaptin is a 100kDa coiled-coil protein that interacts with the GTP form of the small GTPase Rab5 (see RAB5A, RAB5B, RAB5C) a potent regulator of endocytic transport.

Rose McDowall

She contributed backing or lead vocals for Coil, Current 93, Death in June, Felt, Alex Fergusson, Into A Circle, Megas, Nature and Organisation, Nurse With Wound, Ornamental, Psychic TV and Boyd Rice on recordings as well as singing or playing guitar for live appearances.

San Francisco's Doomed

The album was released in the UK on vinyl by punk reissue label Solar Lodge Records (run by John Balance of Coil) and on CD as a split release on Solar Lodge/Overground.

Schoenhofen Pyramid Mausoleum

A bronze molding of bundled reeds surrounds the door and the door's themselves feature cast lotus designs with coiled asps around the handles.

Sliding pillar suspension

In around 1904, the New Jersey inventor J. Walter Christie introduced a sliding pillar suspension system with vertical coil springs, which would appear to be the inspiration for that used by Lancia on its Lambda from around 1922.

Spiral Binding Company Inc

Today MeadWestvaco still binds their books in the same metal spiral-coil.

SSTC

Solid state Tesla coil, a Tesla coil that uses semiconductors in place of the traditional spark gap

Stephen Thrower

With Coil, he worked on the (unreleased) soundtrack for Hellraiser by Clive Barker, and recorded the soundtrack to the Derek Jarman film, The Angelic Conversation, as well as making appearances in Jarman's films, Caravaggio, The Last of England and Imagining October.

The Anal Staircase

The Anal Staircase is a 12" single by the British group Coil, released in 1986. The single introduced Stephen Thrower as part of Coil. Thrower would then return for the album Horse Rotorvator and would remain a member for many years, his last appearance being on Stolen and Contaminated Songs in 1992. "Blood From the Air," "Ravenous," and an alternate version of "The Anal Staircase" later appeared on Horse Rotorvator.

The Shipping News

Some names in the book are taken from knots, for example "Killick hitch" and coil.

The Snow

The Snow is a track by the British group Coil, available on the album Love's Secret Domain (1991) and also released as a 12" vinyl, cassette and CD EP. A music video of "The Snow (Answers Come in Dreams II)" was directed by Peter Christopherson.

The Threshold HouseBoys Choir

Christopherson (featuring David Tibet, Othon Mataragas and Ernesto Tomasini) performed a new live soundtrack to Derek Jarman's film The Angelic Conversation (the original score for the film was created in the 1980s by Coil).

Travancore

The official flag of the state was red with a dextrally-coiled silver conch shell (Turbinella pyrum) at its centre.

Wheal

"The Wheal", a 1987 song by Coil released on two separate 7" vinyl singles


see also

C14orf102

The protein contains five HAT (histone acetyltransferase) domains, a coiled coil domain, a domain of unknown function, a lysine-rich region, and a poly-lysine and serine region.