Wednesday 16 May 2012

Electricity: Invention or Discovery???

                    When any one is asked about electricity, most general answers would be about the shock it gives. Really electricity is a very dangerous toy to play with. But when used with caution, can serve as the most powerful means of energy. Its obvious that today world can live without anything, but without electricity, its hard to imagine.

Electricity in action

                    Coming to know what is electricity, we can simply define that scientifically its flow of electrons or charge. Yes it is, that electricity is really an immense flow of charged particles in a particular direction, which is said to be the direction of the current. The movement of negative charges from the negative Cathode to the Positive Anode, constitutes the current.

                    When asked about the origin of electric Current, many answer that it was invented by Thomas Alva Edison, but actually its not at all an invention, its a discovery. Before Edison has found current, its evident from the nature that electricity do exist and researches have been carried on it. The lightnings that occur during the rainfall is a natural movement of natural current. 


Nikola Telsa

                    As early as 2750 BC that people used to know about the jolts that were given by Electric Fish, and were used in the treatment of patients of Headache and Gout. later in the 15th century that the Arabs identified the lightnings of the rain. Researches on Static Electricity were made in about 660 BC. The then people knew that when a rod of amber is rubbed on cat's fur, can attract small materials like feathers. The evolution of the research on electricity rose when Benjamin Franklin conducted experiments on electricity in 1752 and found from the rainy sky that lightning was electric in nature.....

                      From then, the study of electricity has become more interesting among people and the works of  many prominent scientists gave rise to the so things we are enjoying.

I conclude here, saying that the fruits of every aspect of science, we are enjoying is the lifetime struggle of many great people and its our gratitude to respect them.....

  

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