He eventually found the ship's cat lying on a coil of rope.

A vertical or horizontal stroke indicated numbers 1 to 9, a hobble for cattle 10 to 90, a coil of rope 100 to 900 and a lotus 1,000 to 9,000.

Many of the other guests were mountaineers, clasping coils of ropes and pitons.

One of the caves also yielded neatly arranged coils of rope, used for rigging and 'left for the next expedition, one that never came', she said.

The magnetic field passes through a second coil of wire wrapped around the same piece of iron and creates electricity by induction.

It's a huge coil of wire which fires lightning around the room while making an almighty noise.

In a power adaptor, mains electricity runs through a coil of wire wrapped around a piece of iron; the iron becomes an electromagnet and creates a magnetic field.

These designs operate by applying current from the output of an amplifier circuit to a coil of wire, called a voice coil.

Some magnetos have a second coil of wire located next to the first, called a secondary coil.

The 20ft-high copper coil pulsed with half a million volts and two metal orbs at the top started to fizz lightning bolts.

They heat the pan via a spiral copper coil beneath the glass surface, which transfers energy directly to the pan.

The copper coil immersed in cold water to condense the vapours.

The copper coil can, however, be filled with a ferromagnetic material, which gives the coil much lower magnetic reluctance.

Between each copper coil leg are placed the pieces of the sub-divided and insulated iron ferrite cores making up the ferrite ring.

Similarly, an electromagnetic coil can transfer energy to another, provided they are in the same orientation and resonate at a matching frequency.

Experts are increasingly interested in the method, which involves placing an electromagnetic coil next to the scalp to alter the pattern of signals in a particular brain area.

But when the scientists used a huge electromagnetic coil to change the orientation of the magnetic field around them, the robins all hopped in the new 'southwest' direction.

The piston inside these dampers contained a single, large electromagnetic coil.

This type of unit uses turns of copper tube wound into an electromagnetic coil.

The igniter piece resembles a car's electric cigarette lighter heating coil.

Experts believe the metals come from the heating coils found in vaping devices.

What about contaminants such as the tiny metal particles released from the heating coils?

It uses photovoltaic cells to help to power motorised shades that control the temperature of the building and geothermal heating coils.

Its industrial and technical uses include marine fittings and plumbing fixtures for its corrosion resistance, and heating coils for its high electrical resistance.

They connected this to a magnetic coil, which switched on with lots of brain activity and off otherwise.

Folk playing a memory game improved after a 20-minute scalp blast from a magnetic coil.

His boots contain magnetic coil springs which allow him impressive leaps as well as the ability to cling to surfaces.

Recharging pads, which have been on the market for several years, also contain magnetic coils that direct energy to a phone's battery.

In a finite configuration without pressure-bearing walls or magnetic coils, the surface integral will vanish.

You have a little metal coil and a thirty or forty-gallon barrel.

To get rid of this, reach for the rubber plunger and drain auger - a flexible metal coil that can be fed through the pipes until it reaches the blockage.

One of the most common form of vending machine, the snack machine, often uses a metal coil which when ordered rotates to release the product.

The floor area reserved for dancing within the ballroom was sprung with huge metal coil springs placed uniformly underneath the bearers.

The record was driven by a metal coil wound by pulling the toy's string.

Designed to produce 1,25 million tons of hot-rolled carbon steel coil per year.

This plant has its own tubemill which accepts steel coil, gradually rolls it into a tube and welds the seam shut.

The coil transfer car transfers the steel coil or iron coil inside or between workshops.

This removes two known hazards from the jumping surface - the rigid perimeter frame and the steel coil springs.

Modern spring mattress cores, often called innersprings, are made up of steel coil springs, or coils.