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Electrical Energy
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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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