Charles M. Schwab

As the train rounded the curve, the great smoking stacks of the Edgar Thomson works, the flaming converters belching forth, made such a vivid impression upon my youthful mind that it will never fade. I thought I had seen the very acme of what might be accomplished in an industrial way.

American Businessman

Jack Gilbert

You can't work in a steel mill and think small. Giant converters hundreds of feet high. Every night, the sky looked enormous. It was a torrent of flames - of fire. The place that Pittsburgh used to be had such scale.

American Poet

Mike Gallagher

American Critic

Emphasizes the ability to use items differently, usually across countries or systems.

Function Change

Ensures electronic devices match electrical system of the region.

Power Compatibility

Highlighting ecological impact, converters reduce environmental harm from vehicles.

Emission Control

A specialized automotive part, not familiar to all.

Technical Term

Can apply to people transforming any sort of entity or idea.

Broad Usage

Software converters create compatibility between different digital platforms.

Format Flexibility

Eases sharing files with users on different software or devices.

Easy Sharing

Useful for changing music or video files to work on various devices.

Media Adaptation

 the next choice is probably going to be tilapia. Tilapia is one of those fish nobody ever heard of 20 years ago. It's actually a very efficient converter of plant protein into animal protein, and it's been a godsend to the third world. It's actually a tremendously sustainable solution, it goes from an egg to an adult in nine months.

The four fish we're...

 but I didn't have anything to contribute. So I tried to figure out what other way could we try to make cost-effective solar electricity. What if we collect the sun with a large reflector -- like I had been thinking about in high school, but maybe with modern technology we could make it cheaper -- concentrate it to a small converter,

Bill Gross: Great ideas...

 in various trace gas emissions, fundamentally changing the air we all breathe. Many places have already responded with countermeasures. Most cars produced since the 1980′s are equipped with catalytic converters that reduce the emission of carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxides.

What’s in the air you...

 were going to the moon net and we had other issues in 1970 right right there's fascinations and and unrest on college campuses and all of a sudden people started thinking about Earth's earth right 1972 the catalytic converter is introduced leaded gasses banned DDT

Going to the Moon… and...

 and he's discussing what sort of cassava they will plant -- the best converter of sunshine to food that man has found. And they are very, very eagerly interested to get advice, and that's to survive in poverty. That's one context. Getting out of poverty.

New insights on poverty...

 This was when I began to appreciate, more than ever, the power of biological teleportation. Naturally, with this in mind, we started to build a biological teleporter. We call it the DBC. That's short for digital-to-biological converter.

How to build synthetic...

 system means I mean we will use one big hydraulic motor one big alternator and one big transformer on ground to Cather many wind converter at the same time in terms of storage the use of a hydraulic system allows the conversion of the

Creating wind energy...

 she's using the arm, and everything goes wrong. There was a computer spook, a broken wire, a converter that sparked. We took out a whole circuit in the hotel and just about put on the fire alarm.

Todd Kuiken: A...

 arm and everything goes wrong idea there was a computer spook a broken wire a converter that sparked we took out a whole circuit in the hotel and just about put on the fire alarm and none of

A prosthetic arm that...

 later on went on to provide more air pollution the solution again was an innovation namely the catalytic converter when India was starving in

Converter