To my mind, this blog post had the same stilted, mechanical feel that those all talk YouTube commercials have, even when they're in an Australian accent. Nothing very bad or very good, just mid phrasing and vocabulary.
think about Benjamin Franklin twenty-five years before Declaration of Independence naming the first "battery" (out of the concept of lined-up artillery) by connecting a series of lynden jars (basically capacitors) - he also invented the concept of +/- positive and negative
now we've got space telescopes and probes leaving the solar system
Another fun fact is that it was impossible to deduce from any of Ben Franklin's experiments what material was transferred and what material remained in place to give rise to "charge" as we think of it. So he picked a convention that we've continued to use even after we learned that his negative charges were the material that gets transferred by friction.
This blog post is essentially a summary of the original video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y-9GbsS9Fg
To my mind, this blog post had the same stilted, mechanical feel that those all talk YouTube commercials have, even when they're in an Australian accent. Nothing very bad or very good, just mid phrasing and vocabulary.
Just go watch the YouTube video, this blog rips off YouTube content.
Bogus blog shenanigans aside, Drake Anthony is a treasure.
for a moment I thought this was going to be about arc-lights in the 1800s that mechanically touch electrodes and then draw apart
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_lamp
it's amazing how far we've come
think about Benjamin Franklin twenty-five years before Declaration of Independence naming the first "battery" (out of the concept of lined-up artillery) by connecting a series of lynden jars (basically capacitors) - he also invented the concept of +/- positive and negative
now we've got space telescopes and probes leaving the solar system
imagine what's coming in another 300 years
> naming the first "battery" (out of the concept of lined-up artillery)
That's an amazing fun fact.
Another fun fact is that it was impossible to deduce from any of Ben Franklin's experiments what material was transferred and what material remained in place to give rise to "charge" as we think of it. So he picked a convention that we've continued to use even after we learned that his negative charges were the material that gets transferred by friction.
Crummy blog crashed my browser tab with all the nonsense it loaded