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Asked by joel to Betul, Bridget, Ceri-Wyn, Laurel, Maria on 21 Jun 2010 in Categories: General.
Question: how did people make eltrtriick
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Laurel Fogarty answered on 17 Jun 2010:
Electricity is the flow of electrons through a conductor so we didn’t really make it, we just figured out how to capture it. As usual with scientific advances we have loads of people to thank for the kind of electricity we use today, most important among them would be Volta who first made a battery and Faraday who invented an electric motor.
Humans are undeniably clever for figuring all this out but nature figured it out long before us . Some animals like eels evolved to harness electricity and give electric shocks to their prey. Yey evolution!
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Bridget Waller answered on 21 Jun 2010:
Electricity? Before people learned how to generate electricity for energy use, they would have witnessed it in nature all the time. For example, lightening and electric eels!!
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Ceri-Wyn Thomas answered on 21 Jun 2010:
People never really made electricity- they discovered its properties and then studied it and found many applications for it. The ancient Egyptians were aware the phenomenon of electricity because of electric fish that inhabited the Nile! They believed these fish existed to provide protection for the other fish. The ancient Greeks also recorded similar phenomena and used to advise people with headaches to touch electric fish in order to cure things like headaches!
A long time then passed- until the 1600’s when people started to study electricity properly. This carried on for a few hundred years: in 1800 an Italian scientist Alessandro Volta invented the first battery and in 1821 Michael Faraday invented the first electric motor. In the 19th century scientists like Nikola Tesla, Alexander Graham-Bell and Thomas Edison started to apply their knowledge about electric currents to lots of useful applications that we still use today!
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