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 ...

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: ...

Over the millennia, the phenomenon known as electricity has meant different things to different people. In ancient societies, electricity—or more specifically lightning—was inspiration for some of the ...

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.

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 ...

We need to thank PG&E workers for doing heroic labor in the worst of conditions. Pacific Gas & Electric was at one time an industry leader, now trapped in a vicious cycle of maintaining an outdated ...

Hey all Ars EEs, got a question.<BR><BR>As I understand it, residential electricity was pioneered by Edison, and made viable by Westinghouse here in the US. I could be wrong, but that's why I'm asking ...