rubber-insulated

The first rubber-insulated cables for building wiring were introduced in 1922 with .

Lying beside him were some pieces of single-core rubber-insulated electrical cable.

The engineer, clutching the rubber-insulated flashlight and something else in his left hand, reached out to Culver with his right.

All the rubber-insulated wires in it had perished and the rubber was hard and crumbly.

Working swiftly, Tom plugged several rubber-insulated leads into a big control board, and connected two more to the solar-battery terminals.

Braided, rubber-insulated flex is used for electric heaters and electric element fires.

Over time, rubber-insulated cables become brittle because of exposure to atmospheric oxygen, so they must be handled with care and are usually replaced during renovations.

At its peak in World War II, the rubber factory employed about 6,000 people in the manufacture of rubber-insulated cable and wiring.

But the man drops a kickstand, pulls out a pair of sharp metal spikes, and unreels a few meters of two-stranded, rubber-insulated cable.

Rubber-insulated cable was used for 11,000 volt circuits in 1897 installed for the Niagara Falls Power Generation project.

In the 1920s, the American military experimented with rubber-insulated cables as an alternative to gutta-percha, since American interests controlled significant supplies of rubber but no gutta-percha manufacturers.

A system developed in Germany called "Kuhlo wire" used one, two, or three rubber-insulated wires in a brass or lead-coated iron sheet tube, with a crimped seam.

He then had the idea of passing a horizontal flexible rubber-insulated electric cable up and down a ship's side so as to induce the required permanent magnetism in the ship's plates.

The company became large-scale manufacturers of elastic driving bands for machinery, rope for mines, waterproof cloths and garments, and waterproof canvas, as well the first rubber-insulated wire.

In 1936, the US-based Insulated Power Cables Engineers Association specified a wrapping of duck tape as one of many methods used to protect rubber-insulated power cables.

It incorporated small, rubber-insulated maritime electric batteries not only to inflate the jacket, but also to power a light to transmit and receive SOS messages and to launch a distress flare.

Jamieson carried a telephone, Curran two black heaters, McCrimmon two radiant heaters and Stephen two spools of rubber-insulated cable, one thick, one thin, both of which he unreeled as he went. '