COOL FACTS ABOUT ELECTRICITY THESE ARE NINE COOL FACTS ABOUT ELECTRICITY.
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ELECTRICITY SPEED Electricity travels at 6,696,000 miles per hour.
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LIGHTNING BOLT The typical lightning bolt packs 100 million volts.
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HEART FUNCTIONING AND ELECTRICITY Electricity plays an important role in the way your heart functions. Muscle cells in the heart are contracted by electricity that runs through your body. Medical-Equipment-ECG-Monitor.
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ECG MACHINES Electrocardiogram (ECG) machines are used in hospitals to measure the electricity flowing through a patient’s heart, displaying a line that spikes with every heartbeat.
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WHAT’S A VOLT? A unit of electric force, measuring the potential strength of the current.
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THE FIRST LIGHT BULB Edison made the first public demonstration of his incandescent light bulb on December 31, 1879, in Menlo Park. It was during this time that he said: "We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles."
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EELS Electric eels can produce shocks of 500 volts or more.
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NICHOLA TESLA BORN Nichola Tesla was born during a lightning storm. He invented the first alternating current (AC) motor and developed AC generation and transmission technology.
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FIRST ELCTRICITY CAR The first successful electric car was built in 1891 by American inventor William Morrison.
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