{"id":188,"date":"2019-06-20T11:50:32","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T17:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elliotactor-author.com\/?page_id=188"},"modified":"2019-06-20T11:50:32","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T17:50:32","slug":"origin-of-electricity","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/elliotactor-author.com\/?page_id=188","title":{"rendered":"Origin of Electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sort of like Dave Barry writings<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today’s scientific question\nis: What in the world is electricity?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And where does it go after it\nleaves the toaster?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is a simple experiment\nthat will teach you an important electrical lesson: On a cool, dry day, scuff\nyour feet along a carpet, then reach your hand into a friend’s mouth and touch\none of his metal dental fillings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Did you notice how your friend\ntwitched violently and cried out in pain? This teaches us that electricity can\nbe a very powerful force, but we must never use it to hurt others unless we\nneed to learn an important electrical lesson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It also teaches us how an\nelectrical circuit works. When you scuffed your feet, you picked up a batch of\n“electrons,” which are very small objects that carpet manufacturers\nweave into carpets so they will attract dirt. The electrons travel through your\nbloodstream and collect in your finger, where they form a spark that leaps to\nyour friend’s filling, then travels down to his feet and back into the carpet,\nthus completing the circuit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amazing electronic fact: If\nyou scuffed your feet long enough without touching anything, you would build up\nso many electrons that your finger would explode! But this is nothing to worry\nabout unless you have carpeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although we modern persons\ntend to take our electric lights, radios, mixers, etc. for granted, hundreds of\nyears ago people did not have any of these things, which is just as well\nbecause there was no place to plug them in. Then along came the first\nElectrical Pioneer, Benjamin Franklin, who flew a kite in a lightning storm and\nreceived a serious electrical shock. This proved that lightning was powered by the\nsame forces as carpets, but it also damaged Franklin’s brain so severely that\nhe started speaking only in incomprehensible maxims, such as, “A penny\nsaved is a penny earned.” Eventually, he had to be given a job running the\npost office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After Franklin, came a herd of\nElectrical Pioneers whose names have become part of our electrical terminology:\nMyron Volt, Mary Louise Amp, James Watt, Bob Transformer, etc. These pioneers conducted\nmany important electrical experiments. For example, in 1780 Luigi Galvani discovered\n(this is the truth) that when he attached two different kinds of metal to the\nleg of a frog, an electrical current developed and the frog’s leg kicked, even\nthough it was no longer actually attached to the frog, which was dead anyway.\nGalvani’s discovery led to enormous advances in the field of amphibian\nmedicine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, skilled veterinary\nsurgeons can take a frog that has been seriously injured or killed, implant\npieces of metal in its muscles, and watch it hop back into the pond just like a\nnormal frog, except for the fact that it sinks like a stone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the greatest Electrical\nPioneer of all was Thomas Edison, who was a brilliant inventor even though he\nhad little formal education and lived in New Jersey. Edison’s first major\ninvention, in 1877, was the phonograph, which could soon be found in thousands\nof American homes, where it basically sat until 1923, when the record was invented.\nBut Edison’s greatest achievement came in 1879 when he invented the electric\ncompany. Edison’s design was a brilliant adaptation of the simple electrical\ncircuit: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The electric company sends\nelectricity through a wire to a customer, then immediately gets the electricity\nback through another wire, then (this is the brilliant part) sends it right\nback to the customer again. This means that an electric company can sell a\ncustomer the same batch of electricity thousands of times a day and never get\ncaught since very few customers take the time to examine their electricity closely.\nIn fact, the last year in which any new electricity was generated in the United\nStates was 1937: the electric companies have been merely re-selling it ever\nsince, which is why they have so much free time to apply for rate increases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The origin of electricity can\nbe summarized as the combinations of past curiosities, brought into the present\nand the future as unlimited benefits. Just remember, the electricity never\nleaves the toaster at all, it stays in the toast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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