ReMaking History, Volume 2, 1st Edition

Part III Electricity for the Future

In the final three projects, we’ll make and use humankind’s most industrious servant, electricity. Electricity is a bit hard to understand because you can’t see it or hold it in your hand. But, in order to really learn about electricity, we need to figure out how to get our arms around it, at least figuratively. As you already are aware, you can’t really do that with household current—there’s far too much energy in there to play safely. Consequently, the amount of electricity we’ll use in our projects will stay very small; but we’ll still have enough to work with to do some very useful and interesting ...