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Benjamin Franklin experimented with electricity on fowl. Portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis, courtesy of The Library of Congress In 1751 Benjamin Franklin planned an electrical ...
On January 17, 1803, a young man named George Forster was hanged for murder at Newgate prison in London. After his execution, as often happened, his body was carried ceremoniously across the city to ...
A tiny worm that leaps high into the air—up to 25 times its body length—to attach to flying insects uses static electricity ...
In his home laboratory, Phil – a high school chemistry teacher who also runs a YouTube science channel – discovered that a simple solar panel can ...
School closures due to the coronavirus outbreak mean borderland children are about to spend a lot more time at home. That’s challenging on any number of levels, with many of us wondering what can you ...
KAHAPETOFF'S text on experimental electrical engineering had become so comprehensive that it became desirable for the production of the present abridgement for undergraduate purposes, but even so the ...
In a remarkable leap for quantum physics, researchers in Japan have uncovered how weak magnetic fields can reverse tiny ...
https://doi.org/10.2307/1344452 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/1344452 Copy URL Privatization of the British electricity supply industry has been accompanied by a ...
Sean O'Connell is an Australian jewelry designer and artist with a particular interest in the interactions between energy and matter. His spark experiments, first developed in 2015 and currently being ...