2) It is a secondary source of energy, meaning that it is produced from coal, oil, nuclear power and other sources of natural energy.
3) Like all forms of energy, the energy from electricity can neither be created nor destroyed: it is simply transferred or converted from or to other forms, such as heat, light and power.
4)The generation of electricity began just over 100 years ago.
5) The word electricity comes from the New Latin electricus, "amber-like" from the classical Latin electrum from the Greek word elektron meaning amber.
6)Even the Ancient Egyptians were aware of electricity, but its power wasn’t really understood until the 18th century.
7) In 1872 Benjamin Franklin conducted an experiment in Philadelphia in which he, reputedly, attached a metal key to the bottom of a dampened kite string and flown it in a stormy sky. He observed a succession of sparks from the key to the back of his hand, showing that lightening was electrical in nature. From this incident, the first principals of electricity were developed.
8) Lighting is one of the biggest uses of domestic energy in the UK, but the light bulb was only invented by Thomas Edison in the late eighteenth century.
9) However, it was Nikola Tesla who really revolutionised our world in pioneering the use of alternating current (AC) electricity, rather than direct current (DC) electricity, which can be transmitted over much greater distances and enabled electricity to be brought into our homes.
10) The Department of Transport and Industry reported that, in 2001, the UK consumed electricity equivalent to over 240 million tonnes of oil, more than it had in the last thirty years!
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