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Before they understood what caused electricityand whether it is producible naturally and artificiallyexperimentalists demonstrated its power.
When pioneering thinkers first began to the power of electricity, they used static electricity as a form of entertainment.
Two Italian academics, who helped propel the world into the modern age, were working in, or near, Bologna in the late-18th century.
Underneath London's Royal Institution, Humphry Davy creates more than 800 Voltaic-Pile batteries and stuns his audience with an extremely bright elect...
Thomas-Francois Dalibard and Georges-Louis Leclerc (the Count of Buffon) translated Benjamin Franklins theories about studying electricity into French...
Conducting an experiment to measure the voltage emitted by a Torpedo Fish, when catching its prey, Professor Jim Al-Khalili (from the Open University)...
Two Italian professors - Galvani and Volta - try to determine whether electricity inside or outside a dissected frog makes its legs twitch.
District 12 - where Katniss and Prim Everdeen live - has an area called the Seam.
Scientists say that DNA is the instruction manual for building life, but what does that really mean?
Not the only famous ship to sink during the first decades of the twentieth century, Titanic is the most well-known.
During a televised segment of the Rogers Commission hearings (on the 11th of February, 1986), Dr.
Dr. Robert Goddard - a genuine rocket scientist whose pioneering work still impacts space travel and today's rockets - was a visionary.
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