Electrical Energy and Circuit Design

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

Fun with energy
http://www.dtekids.com/landing.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/edu/ltg/

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

Mary Shelley and Frankenstein

Some information from Georgetown University http://www.georgetown.edu/irvinemj/technoculture/resources/electricfrankenstein.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 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

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