Doctor Who: 15 Science Lessons To Build Your Own Sonic Screwdriver

13. Power Source

11 Power Source 5 Kinda Nowadays nearly everything you own requires a power source. Manual adding machines made way to scientific electronic calculators as did paper and pencil make way to tablet computers. All these new devices require power to operate. The Doctor has occasionally run into this problem and his solution is to use the screwdriver to power a device. The Fifth Doctor was the first to use the screwdriver this way to power the delta wave generator to help Nyssa overcome her exhaustion in Kinda . The Ninth Doctor used it to charge a cellphone battery and The Tenth Doctor used it to power the DNA Sequencer in Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks . The energy of sound waves can be converted into electricity with the help of piezoelectric devices. These devices are mostly made up of crystals and generate electrical signals when exposed to the pressure from sound waves. With the proper fine-tuning both the voltage and amperes could be controlled by the screwdriver to perform as a power source of infinite variation.
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An artist and a computer geek before the two became synonymous. Combined them into data visualization which just seemed natural. But my real passion is Doctor Who. I write for the magazine Whotopia with my colleague Jürgen. Presented on my blog, The Doctor and Me, are essays and data analysis of Doctor Who. Working to amass large Doctor Who datasets allows for the analysis of the show unlike anything else. The most recent dataset is every use of the sonic screwdriver which is currently approaching 900. And every time an old episode comes on, there is a chance of spotting yet one more use that was tucked away.