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Electrical Facts

Did you know.....

  • The Sun casts enough energy in hour upon earth to power the globe for one year.
  • A spark of static electricity can measure up to three thousand (3,000) volts.
  • One bolt of lightning has enough electricity to power 200,000 homes.
  • A bolt of lightning can measure up to three million (3,000,000) volts, and it lasts less than one second!
  • In 1800 Count Alassandro Volta made the "voltaic pile", otherwise known as a battery. His experiments, along with Luigi Galvani, applying electricity to frogs legs and making them jump when touched by an electric wire prompted Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley to write FRANKENSTEIN in 1818.

  • A battery was discovered in Baghdad in the year 1957 that was made by the Parthians, who ruled Baghdad from 250 B.C. E. to 224 C. E., and was used to electroplate silver.

  • Every year, American homes waste more than $13 billion in energy, that's an average of $150 per family home.

  • More than 10,000 homes in the United States are powered entirely by solar energy.

  • Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) was one of the most well known inventors of all time with 1093 patents, mostly having to due with electrical devises. During the whole of his life, Edison received only three months of formal schooling, and was dismissed from school as being retarded.

  • The Livermore Centennial Light was manufactured in 1901 by the Shelby Electric Company. It is a hand-blown bulb with a carbon filament. It uses approximately 4 watts of electricity. The bulb has been left burning continuously in the firehouse as a night light over the fire trucks since 1901.

  • The first use of water to generate electricity was in 1882 on the Fox river, in the USA, which produced enough power to light two paper mills and a house.
  • The electric power system in the United States is the largest in the world. In fact, with over 800,000 MW of installed capacity, America has more than twice the generating capacity of China, our nearest competitor. According to the Energy Information Administration (EIA), the electricity generated in America in 2002 came from the following sources:
  1. 50% Coal
  2. 20% Nuclear
  3. 18% Natural Gas
  4. 7% Hydro(water)
  5. 5% Other(solar, etc.)
  • An electric oven uses one kilowatt-hour of electricity in about 20 minutes, but one kilowatt-hour will power a TV for 3 hours, run a 100-watt bulb for 12 hours, and keep an electric clock ticking for 3 months.
  • An Electric eel can produce an electric shock of up to 650 volts at one ampere.
  • Currents of approximately 0.2 A are potentially fatal, because they can make the heart fibrillate, or beat in an uncontrolled manner.
  • Early in their history, Christmas lights were so expensive that they were more commonly rented than sold. An electrically lighted tree was a status symbol in the early 1900s.
  • A 100 watt modern light bulb emits about 1600 lumens, while a single flame oil lamp form the 1800's emitted about 2400 lumens.
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