It is literally all around you (and even inside you) - electricity makes up the basis of modern life. But what exactly is electricity and how does it work? In this classic episode, Josh and Chuck chase away the darkness and explain electricity in their usual electrifying way.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Can you even fathom how smart these people were to be that in the dark and figuring all this subatomic stuff out back then?
Hats off. Top hats off to these guys. Last chance garage hat off. I'm back on. Like, I have trouble understanding it now when it's explained through, like, kids for science websites. I know.
We're not inventing this, figuring this stuff out for the first time.
Right, exactly.
And it's a pretty dangerous field to try to figure out blind, too, you know? Yeah, I mean, more than one scientist got a shock from a Leyden jar. Oh, yeah. And you can make those. Do you make those in science class?
No.
Yeah, you can make those.
Well, we should say a Leyden jar is a very primitive capacitor. You use a metal rod in a jar... Like a nail. ...that's sunk into, like, some water, and it can store a charge. Yeah. And I think Ben Franklin's kite experiment attached the kite to, or a rod or something, to a Leyden jar to store the charge to. If that happened. Right. But again, he did make the proposal.
It's whether or not he carried it out is a good question.
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