How Does Electricity Work?

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How Does Electricity Work?


Electricity for your house comes from a big power station where there is a huge piece of machinery


called a

Generator


Inside the generator is an electromagnet, which is an iron core with wires which

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In a circle around the magnet—also not touching it—there are other coils of wire.


Power,


usually from steam or falling water


H I rapidly inside the coil.

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makes the electro magnet


and this pro

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Electricity, electric curr

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wire.


The electric current flows from the generator

into cables that run sometimes

Underground


They carry the

current everywhere it is needed.

and sometimes

high up on poles.


A cable brings it into your house.


you bring the electric current into your room. When you flip a light switch or turn on your television set,


This book was designed and printed by Michelle Nahmad for the Spring 2013 Word and Image course at the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts.


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