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 The first fuse was patented by Thomas Alva Edison in 1890.- By scuffing your feet long enough without touching anything, you could build up so much static electricity that your finger would explode! But this is nothing to worry about, unless you have carpeting.
- In 1752 Benjamin Franklin conducted an experiment which proved that lightning strikes are electrical.
- An electric eel can generate a charge of up to 650 volts.
- If you‘re sitting in a car that gets hit by lightning , the electricity goes right around you and into the ground.
- If done correctly, electricity can go straight through your body without killing you. However we do not recommend that you try.
- The mass of an electron is 9.109382 ×10−31 kg.
- The charge of a single electron is -1.602176487(40)×10−19 C.
- The ancient Greek noticed that amber attracted small objects when rubbed with fur. Apart from lightning this phenomenon was humanity's earliest recorded experience with electricity.
- The words electric and electricity are both derived from the Latin ēlectrum, which came from the Greek ēlektron for amber.
- Electrophobia is the name for the fear of electricity.
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