Facts about electricity

                                                                                         

1) Electricity is the flow if electrical power or charge.

2) It comes from the conversion of natural energy sources, such as natural gas, oil, nuclear power and coal.

3) Like all forms of energy, the energy from electricity can neither be created nor destroyed: it is simply transferred or converted from or to other forms, such as heat, light and power.

4) Electricity generation began just over 100 years ago.

5) The word electricity comes from the New Latin electricus, "amber-like" from the classical Latin electrum from the Greek word elektron meaning amber.

6) Even the Ancient Egyptians were aware of electricity, but its power wasn’t really understood until the 18th century.

7) The first principals of electricity were developed after Benjamin Franklin conducted an experiment in Philadelphia in 1872. He is reputed to have attached a metal key to the bottom of a dampened kite string and flown it in a stormy sky. He observed a succession of sparks from the key to the back of his hand, showing that lightening was electrical in nature.

8) The light bulb was invented by Thomas Edison in the late eighteenth century. Today, the production of light is one of the biggest domestic uses of electricity in the UK.

9) Nikola Tesla pioneered the use of alternating current (AC) electricity, rather than direct current (DC) electricity, which can be transmitted over much greater distances. It is as a result of this man that we are able to have electricity in our homes.

10) In 2001, the Department of Transport and Industry reported that our use of electricity just keeps getting bigger. That year, the UK consumed electricity equivalent to over 240 million tonnes of oil, more than it had in the last thirty years!

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