(trÄns-fÃ´r'mÉr) A device used to change the voltage of an alternating current in one circuit to a different voltage in a second circuit, or to partially isolate two circuits from each other. Transformers consist of two or more coils of conducting material, such as wire, wrapped around a core (often made of iron).
Sam Taylor-Johnson, artist and filmmaker, will direct the Fifty Shades of Grey film Photo: AP. By Alice Vincent, Entertainment writer, online. 12:37PM BST 20 Jun 2013. The Fifty Shades of Grey film, based on the bestselling erotic novel, will be directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson. Taylor-Wood, who is a Turner Prize-nominated artist and director, confirmed her involvement today after the book's author, EL James, announced the news on Twitter on Wednesday night.
The first, titled Fifty Shades of Grey, was released as an e-book and a print on demand paperback in May 2011 by The Writers' Coffee Shop, a virtual publisher based in Australia. The second volume, Fifty Shades Darker, was released in September 2011; and the third, Fifty Shades Freed, followed in January 2012.