Powerhouse
Encyclopedia
Powerhouse or Power House may refer to:
- Power stationPower stationA power station is an industrial facility for the generation of electric energy....
, a facility for the generation of electric power - The Power-HouseThe Power-HouseThe Power-House is a novel by John Buchan, a thriller set in London, England. It was written in 1913, when it was serialised in Blackwood's Magazine, and it was published in book form in 1916. The narrator is the barrister and Tory MP Edward Leithen, who features in a number of Buchan's novels...
, a 1916 novel by John Buchan - Powerhouse Arts District, Jersey CityPowerhouse Arts District, Jersey CityThe Powerhouse Arts District is a historic warehouse district in Downtown Jersey City, New Jersey, United States, which takes its name from the unused generating station Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Powerhouse currently undergoing an extensive stabilization effort...
- powerHouse BooksPowerHouse bookspowerHouse Books is an independent publisher of art and photography books founded in 1995 by Daniel Power, and is located near the Brooklyn waterfront of DUMBO in The powerHouse Arena...
, a Brooklyn-based publisher of high-end art and photography books - Powerhouse (comics)Powerhouse (comics)Powerhouse is a name used by several different fictional characters, operating in the Marvel Comics Universe.- Powerhouse :-Publication history:...
, the name of several fictional characters in the Marvel Comics Universe - Powerhouse MuseumPowerhouse MuseumThe Powerhouse Museum is the major branch of the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences in Sydney, the other being the historic Sydney Observatory...
, a science and technology museum in Sydney, Australia - PowerHouse (programming language), a 1980s programming language by Cognos Corporation
- Powerhouse (shop)Powerhouse (shop)Powerhouse was a United Kingdom electrical goods retail chain which went into administration in 2003 and finally entered receivership in August 2006...
, a former electrical goods chain in the United Kingdom - Powerhouse (TV series)Powerhouse (TV series)Powerhouse is a United States television series produced by the Educational Film Center at Northern Virginia ETV and aired on PBS for 16 episodes in 1982. It billed itself as "a 16-part series for young people and their families," with the target audience being primarily preteens and teenagers, and...
, a United States television series - Powerhouse (video game), a 1995 computer game by Impressions GamesImpressions GamesImpressions Games was a video game developer founded by David Lester in the UK. He sold the company to Sierra Entertainment in 1995, who was then bought out by Cendant and eventually, Vivendi Universal ....
, now part of Vivendi SA - Brisbane Powerhouse, a performing arts center in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Powerhouse, a large function centre and club overlooking Albert Park LakeAlbert Park and LakeAlbert Park and Albert Park Lake are situated in the City of Port Phillip, Victoria, Australia, 3 km south of the Melbourne CBD....
in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, after which many local recreational clubs are named - Dick Smith Powerhouse, a chain of large electronics stores operating in Australia and New Zealand
- A brand of chocolate bar manufactured by Peter Paul Candy Manufacturing CompanyPeter Paul Candy Manufacturing CompanyThe Peter Paul Candy Manufacturing Company is a candy-making division within the Hershey Company. Peter Paul was originally founded in 1919 by Peter Paul Halajian, a candy retailer in the New Haven, Connecticut area....
- "Powerhouse", a short story by Eudora WeltyEudora WeltyEudora Alice Welty was an American author of short stories and novels about the American South. Her novel The Optimist's Daughter won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973. Welty was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among numerous awards. She was the first living author to have her works published...
- In contract bridgeContract bridgeContract bridge, usually known simply as bridge, is a trick-taking card game using a standard deck of 52 playing cards played by four players in two competing partnerships with partners sitting opposite each other around a small table...
, a "powerhouse" is the term given to an unusually strong hand - usually holding very high trumps
In music
- Eric Clapton and the Powerhouse, a short-lived 1960s blues band
- Powerhouse (Mustasch album), 2005
- Powerhouse (Deep Purple album)Powerhouse (Deep Purple album)Powerhouse is a 1977 compilation album by Deep Purple, including a collection of previously unreleased live and studio tracks from the halcyon days of Deep Purple. The Mark II line-up.-Side one:# "Painted Horse" - 5:19...
, 1977 - Powerhouse (White Heart album)Powerhouse (White Heart album)Powerhouse is the seventh album by Christian rock band White Heart and the first to feature Brian Wooten on guitars and Anthony Sallee on bass, and the only to feature Mark Nemer on drums.-Track listing:# "Independence Day" – 5:37# "Powerhouse" – 4:30...
, 1990 - Powerhouse (The Jazz Crusaders album)Powerhouse (The Jazz Crusaders album)Powerhouse is a 1969 album by The Jazz Crusaders. It was their fourteenth album produced by Richard Bock for World Pacific Jazz Records. It was the first album in which Joe Sample played on the Fender Rhodes and according Thom Jurek in his All Music review, would mark a turning point for the band.-...
, 1969 - Powerhouse (band), the name of several dance music projects
- Powerhouse, project by Anthony AcidAnthony AcidAnthony Acid is an Italian-American DJ, producer and remixer. He has worked with the likes of Nast Nova, DJ Skribble, Brutal Bill, and Richie Santana.-Mixed compilations:*Diva Grooves, Vol. 3...
- "Powerhouse" (song)Powerhouse (song)Powerhouse is a instrumental musical composition by Raymond Scott, probably best known today as the iconic "assembly line" music in animated cartoons released by Warner Brothers.-History:...
, a 1937 composition by Raymond Scott featured in many Warner Bros. cartoons - Powerhouse (club)Powerhouse (club)Powerhouse is a gay club and venue in Newcastle upon Tyne.The Powerhouse has been located in four separate locations over its lifetime. Originally a Basement club on Waterloo Street in the 1980s and launched by Property developer and Entrepreneur Sam Hamandi of Trafalgar Leisure Ltd...
, a gay club in Newcastle upon Tyne