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Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

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And now, the history of electricity.

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Here's Dr. Textbook.

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Hello.

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Maybe you think that one or two people discovered electricity.

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Well actually, electricity is all around us, it occurs in nature.

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Oh, ah!

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Very funny.

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An electric buzzer.

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Now, you probably heard some story about Ben Franklin flying his kite.

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Well, don't believe for one second that Mr. Franklin was standing out in a wet field with lightning raging about him, holding on to a brass key.

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No, he actually was standing in the distance, observing the kite, taking notes, and what he found out was that lightning is actually an electrical spark.

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Now, on to Alessandro Volta.

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Mr. Volta was the first man to build a battery, and he did this by taking small plates of copper and zinc and putting moist pieces of paper in between it.

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So, as an ode to Volta, I will take this nine-volt battery and stick it on my moist tongue.

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Not a very good idea.

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Thomas Edison built a generator to make electrical current.

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But it actually was a man called Nikola Tesla who found out that by alternating the electrons in an electrical circuit was a better way to produce electricity.

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And this we call alternating current.

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And the first place this occurred was in Niagara Falls.

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Wait! There's more to learn!

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This has been the History of Electricity.