|
|
This is only a preview of the paper
Click here to register and get the full text.
Existing members click here to login
|
|
|
... Know I understand more about electricity than I taught I would ever know.
There was very little progress until the English scientist William Gilbert in the year 1600 explained how electricity was involved in many substances and coined the term electricity from the Greek word for amber. As a result of this explanation, Gilbert is entitled the father of modern electricity. In the year 1660 Otto von Guericke invented a crude machine for producing static electricity. The machine was a ball of sulfur, and was rotated by a crank with one hand and rubbed with the other to create the static electricity. Successors, such as Francis Hauksbee, made improvements that provided experimenters with a ready source of static electricity. ... Du Fay recognized two kinds of electricity, which Benjamin Franklin and Ebenezer Kinnersley of Philadelphia later named positive and negative. ... The Leyden jar stored static electricity, which could be discharged all at once.
Approximate Word count = 707
Approximate Pages = 2.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
|
|
|
|
|
|