Eels have it naturally, but humans had to invent ways to harness it. The Electricity Channel involves the inventors or inventions that have contributed to the understanding, use and science of the phenomena and laws of electricity — the attraction and repulsion of electrified bodies by friction or natural occurrence, usually in the form of an electric current.

   
Alternating Current

Electric Lamp

Fluorescent Lamp

  Laser

Magnetron


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