Called an aeolipile
Posted on 01/20/2024 10:47:23 AM PST by DallasBiff
Talk to people who own whole house standby gensets for the pros and cons.
The author stopped just a wee bit early. He should have expanded more on how the electric power industry was formed and grew after Edison's first commercial station at Pearl Street in Manhattan.
Instrumental in this was Samuel Insull (1859 – 1938), a British-born business magnate. He was an innovator and investor based in Chicago who helped create the huge integrated electrical infrastructure in the United States. He's often been called the father of the US electrical power industry.
No one back then was measuring electrons, so they must not have existed.
Ok now I understand what you meant.
Every society in history has had an established power that would ban anything that represents a threat. You know, like DJT.
America is the only place in the world where the advent of electricity could have taken place because the government was a tiny fraction of what it is now.
Without the victory of Washington at Yorktown, electricity would not exist today. Great Britain would not have allowed something so unique and powerful as electricity to enter their domain without knowing in advance how it would affect the power structure of their aristocracy’s authority.
The three people who were indispensable to the creation of the modern world were Washington, Franklin and Edison, in that order.
Without Washington’s steely determination to win, and his absolute refusal to yield under tremendous pressure, America would never have become the greatest nation on earth. Without Franklin’s scientific experiments to lead the way, electricity would never have become more than a gee whiz gadget on university display shelves. Without Edison’s experimentation with over a thousand different elements and his determination to create the incandescent light bulb, it still wouldn’t exist today.
Bear in mind that medical science would not exist without electricity. Before electricity, doctors couldn’t see anything, they couldn’t test anything, they couldn’t analyze anything. Without electricity, any medical diagnosis is no more than a guess, usually not a good one. Life expectancy would revert back to 45 or 50 years of age.
Electricity could only have happened here, in America, yet nobody thanks us for it.
What a shame people don’t know their own history.
Franklin, Edison, and Tesla are possibly the most common names cited in the history of man’s understanding of electricity but that history goes back a lot farther, to the era of Faraday (in particular) and perhaps a dozen others.
For those interested, this woman has some very interesting and entertaining stories/vignettes/lessons from electrical history that are very well done.
kathylovesphysics.com
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I think you are currently being over reactant. Don’t let them blow your fuse.
“You left out the most important pioneer of them all. The ancient Greeks didn’t have a James Maxwell to help them along.”
Michael Faraday was also an important pioneer in the study of electricity. I agree, though, that Maxwell’s contribution was path-breaking: the discovery that electricity, magnetism, and light are closely related phenomenon.
Called an aeolipile
If the ancients had a Venus Flytrap to explain things.
https://youtu.be/khD8fvpqKYI?si=O4989ArJvaPLCtK3
What was the deal with Maxwell?? Once in a while, somebody comes along who is so damn smart it isn’t funny. I am willing to bet he had a rigorous education, and did not worry about learning people’s “preferred pronouns”.
Shouldn’t this really be a history of “smoke”? Electricity is really about keeping the smoke in...or it’ll escape.
Agree the left doesn’t know that electricity is only 35% efficient.
It’s magic to the Lefty Eloi.
Tesla found it but I suppose we’re too stupid to use it.
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