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• But the greatest Electrical Pioneer of them all was Thomas Edison, who was a brilliant inventor despite the fact that he had little formal education and lived in New Jersey.
  Edison's first major invention in 1877, was the phonograph, which could soon be found in thousands of American homes, where it basically sat until 1923, when the record was invented....
• bug n. An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, esp.
  one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature....
• Although we modern persons tend to take our electric lights, radios, mixers, etc.
  for granted, hundreds of years ago people did not have any of these things, which is just as well because there was no place to plug them in....
• Thomas Edison, who invented electric lights--he dedicated his life to humanity.
  Edison went to remote Indian reservations and strung electric wire to the outhouses so that the older Indians could have illumination....
• Here is a simple experiment that will teach you an important electrical lesso
  On a cool, dry day, scuff your feet along a carpet, then reach your hand into a friend's mouth and touch one of his dental fillings....
• Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles, called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
  Electrons travel at the speed of light, which in most American homes is 110 volts per hour....