1.   Copper wires carry the electrical signals.

2.   The aim is for one wire to carry both television and telephone calls.

3.   Bell Atlantic, whose wires carry billions of dollars in financial transactions, said it had more banks wanting to test with it than it could accommodate.

4.   A number of appliances plugged into the same circuit can draw more current than the wires can carry.

5.   But with help from modern microchip design, the electrical wires can carry digital data and standard household current at the same time.

6.   Carpenter said the technology would allow people to use their telephones in the standard fashion even as the same wires carry Internet data between machines.

7.   Future work will seek to increase the current the wires can carry in high magnetic fields, Jin said.

8.   That is because telephone wires carry power as well as communications, allowing most phones to work without being plugged in.

9.   The hot wire carries the electricity from the service panel.

10.   The neutral wire carries the current back to the service panel.