Electricity started out as a curious phenomenon. Mentions of static charges from rubbing amber date to the sixth century BC. The tinkerers who played with sulfur globe friction machines in the 1660s ...

For centuries, static electricity has been the subject of intrigue and scientific investigation. Now, researchers from the Waitukaitis group at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) ...

In The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, Marx famously observed, “Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: ...

We in medicine are generally aware of how important electric devices are — and were — to understanding the function of the heart and brain. Thanks primarily to work by physicists who sought to tame ...

In 1911, Beck launched publicly owned electricity distributed by the Toronto Hydro-Electric System. Today, Toronto Hydro powers over 796,000 homes in the City, or 18 per cent of the total electricity ...

Electricity powers nearly every aspect of modern life, yet its journey from a mysterious natural phenomenon to a cornerstone of civilisation is filled with remarkable discoveries and brilliant minds.

BRATTLEBORO — In 1880 Thomas Edison patented the incandescent light bulb and began to set up an electric generating and distribution system in New York City. This business was in its infancy and many ...