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Also "high tension power lines," which being heavy catenaries presumably are in high mechanical tension, but must surely have gotten that name from the voltage
by awhitby 6y ago
Also "high tension power lines," which being heavy catenaries presumably are in high mechanical tension, but must surely have gotten that name from the voltage = tension thing.
German has this too: voltage = Spannung = tension.
This must go right back to the earliest writings on voltage as a concept.
- natmaka 6y agoFrench also has "tension" in this very sense. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tension_%C3%A9lectrique https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tension_%C3%A9lectrique