>From 1836-7 Wheatstone had thought a good deal about submarine telegraphs, and in 1840 he gave evidence before the Railway Committee of the House of Commons on the feasibility of the proposed line from Dover to Calais. He had even designed the machinery for making and laying the cable. In the autumn of 1844, with the assistance of Mr. Llewellyn, he submerged a length of insulated wire in Swansea Bay, and signalled through it from a boat to the Mumbles Lighthouse. Next year he suggested the use of gutta-percha for the coating of the intended wire across the Channel.英文原著 · 《Heroes of the Telegraph》
In 1857, he investigated the electro-static induction and retardation of currents in insulated wires, a phenomenon which he had observed in 1850, and communicated an account of it to the French Academy of Sciences.英文原著 · 《Heroes of the Telegraph》
Prior to this, he had made several original researches; in 1853, he found that the retardation of current on insulated wires was independent of the strength of current, and his experiments formed the subject of a Friday evening lecture by Faraday at the Royal Institution--a sufficient mark of their importance.英文原著 · 《Heroes of the Telegraph》
Carley had never gazed upon a scene like this. Hostile and prejudiced, she yet felt wrung from her an acknowledgment of beauty and grandeur. But wild, violent, savage! Not livable! This insulated rift in the crust of the earth was a gigantic burrow for beasts, perhaps for outlawed men--not for a civilized person--not for Glenn Kilbourne. "Don't be scart, ma'am," spoke up the driver. "It's safe if you're careful. An' I've druv this manys the time."
Carley's heartbeats thumped at her side, rather denying her taunted assurance of fearlessness.英文原著 · 《The Call of the Canyon》
TRY A LIGHT TURBINE. RISE A MILE STRAIGHT, FALL HALF A MILE SLANTING,--RISE HALF A MILE STRAIGHT, FALL HALF A MILE SLANTING, AND SO ON. OR SLANT UP AND SLANT DOWN. --Poh! You ain't such a fool as to think that is new,--are you? "Put in my telegraph project. Central station. Cables with insulated wires running to it from different quarters of the city.英文原著 · 《The Guardian Angel》
I must not omit to tell you that, during those two Siberian days, my parlour-cat was so electric, that had a person stroked her, and been properly insulated, the shock might have been given to a whole circle of people.英文原著 · 《The Natural History of Selborne》
He's already well insulated behind the moat and drawbridge.美剧 · 《Billions》
You send someone after me here, they're gonna find that I'm a very insulated, protected and powerful man in these fucking parts.美剧 · 《Billions》
Axe is using you as a pawn. thinks you're insulated from the law because of me, and that the diversity crowd will like you because you are one of them.美剧 · 《Billions》