Electrical Energy and Circuit Design


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Electrical Energy and Circuit Design bibliography.


General

A theater of electricity
http://www.mos.org/sln/toe/toe.html

About Farnsworth, the inventor of the television.
http://www.time.com/time/time100/scientist/profile/farnsworth.html

School House Rocks song about electricity contains sound and video files.
http://www.school-house-rock.com/Elec.html

Contains a variety of “movies” geared towards students on health, science and technology topics.
http://www.brainpop.com/

Contains activities related to electricity and electrical safety.
http://www.miamisci.org/af/sln/frankenstein/index.html

Web-site about 20 great engineering achievements. Includes electrification, radio and television, autos, computers, household appliances, etc. Each subject has some information on its history and social impact. From the National Academy of Engineering.
http://www.greatachievements.org/

Think Quest, student site The Energy Planet
http://library.thinkquest.org/C004471/tep/en/index.html

 

Safety

Electricity and safety
http://www.elecsafe.info/

More electrical safety
http://www.tampaelectric.com/Education/ElectricalSafetyWorld/index.html

Cartoon of safe electricity practices
http://www.miamisci.org/af/sln/frankenstein/safety.html

 

 

Lightning

Information on lightning, where it strikes, what causes it and how to stay safe.
http://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/

A kid’s web-site on lightning.
http://www.kidslightning.info/

History of lightning and it’s importance to us by NASA.
http://thunder.msfc.nasa.gov/primer/

Lightning safety.
http://www.lightningsafety.com/

Contains various activities related to electricity and electric charges.
http://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/iconelectricity.html

Questions and answers about lightning
http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/primer/lightning/ltg_basics.html

History and mystery of lightning
http://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/myths.htm

 

Mary Shelley and Frankenstein

Shelley Biography
http://people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/shelleybio.html  

More on Frankenstein, from the National Library of Medicine http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/frankenstein/frankhome.html

 

Electricity—History

From NMAH about the history of electricity and their exhibit on it.
http://americanhistory.si.edu/exhibitions/exhibition.cfm?key=38&exkey=49

 

Luigi Galvani

Information about Galvani
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Galvani.html

 

James Watt

Information on Watt
http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventors/watt.htm

More on James Watt
http://www.history.rochester.edu/steam/lord/4-1.htm

 

Alessandro Volta

About Volta
http://ppp.unipv.it/Volta/Pages/ePage0.html

 

Andre Ampere

Biography of Ampere
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Ampere.html

 

Benjamin Franklin

Information on Franklin's work with electricity
http://sln.fi.edu/franklin/scientst/electric.html

More on Franklin's work with electricity
http://www.mos.org/sln/toe/kite.html

 

George Ohm

Biography of George Ohm
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Ohm.html

 

Thomas Edison

Has all kinds of information on Thomas Edison including biographies written for students, timelines, stories of his inventions and photographs of him, his inventions and lots of other scientists.
http://www.nps.gov/edis/home.htm

http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/energy_fungames/

Virtual exhibit about Edison after 40.
http://americanhistory.si.edu/edison/index.htm

 

Nikola Tesla

Tesla
http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/96jul/tesla.html

More about Tesla from PBS
http://www.pbs.org/tesla/

Tesla vs. Edison
http://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/ll_warcur.html

Tesla, Edison, and Westinghouse
http://www.teslasociety.com/ac.htm

 

Grace Hopper

Grace Hopper
http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=79

More about Grace Hopper
http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/tap/Files/hopper-story.html

 

Power

Discusses the history of power plants in the US.
http://americanhistory.si.edu/powering/past/history1.htm

A history of power.
http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/subject_detail.cfm?key=32&colkey=14

Images of power generation.
http://americanhistory.si.edu/powering/

Generating power
http://www.tampaelectric.com/community/education/electricitycreated/

Working on power lines as a career
http://www.lineworker.com/career-in-linework.html

 

Power Grids and Networks

How power grids work
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3077316/

More on power distribution grids
http://www.howstuffworks.com/power.htm

 

Quartz Watches

Quartz Watches (and how they work)
http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/quartz-watch.htm

 

Microwave ovens

Microwave ovens
http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/microwaves/index.html

 

Static Electricity

Creating static electricity
http://www.exploratorium.edu/science_explorer/sparker.html

How photocopiers work
http://www.howstuffworks.com/photocopier.htm

 

Superconductivity

Introduction to superconductivity
http://www.ornl.gov/reports/m/ornlm3063r1/pt1.html

Superconductor Information for beginners
http://superconductors.org/

 

Other Forms of Energy

Fusion
http://www.pppl.gov/fusion_basics/pages/fusion_energy.html

Nuclear Power
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/reaction/

Microbial Energy
http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/251/88656

Turning Mud into Electricity?
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2002-01/uoma-usu011702.php

Solar energy for spacecraft navigation
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2002/08jan_sunshine.htm


Electric Animals

Electric fish
http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/electric_fish.aspx

Electric eels
http://www.whozoo.org/Intro2000/tashcorm/tempagetwo.htm

 

Medical Uses for Electricity

CAT scans
http://health.howstuffworks.com/cat-scan.htm

EKG
http://www.med.umich.edu/1libr/chheart/noninv05.htm

Pacemaker
http://www.cardio.com/site179.php

Pacemaker overview, with illustration
http://www.heartpoint.com/pacerintro.html

More about pacemakers, from the Cardiology Channel
http://www.cardiologychannel.com/pacemaker/

 

Robotics

Robotic lawnmower
http://www.friendlyrobotics.com/

 

Transistors

About the transistor, it’s invention, uses, etc.
http://www.pbs.org/transistor/

 

Capacitors

How capacitors work
http://www.howstuffworks.com/capacitor3.htm

 



 

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