Most electricity is manufactured at power stations and stored
in wire. The wire is then wound on large spools for transport.
Not all forms of electricity need wire to get from one place
to another. Electricity used for lightening and portable radios are
examples. This kind of electricity is just laying around in the air
already.
Electricity made at power plants makes a humming noise that
can be pitched differently for things like doorbells, telephones and electric
organs.
Electricity can be ordered if different colors for use in
neon signs, Christmas Trees and stuff like that.
Electricity also comes in different lengths, “Long” and “Short.
If you use “long” where “short” should be used it just last longer.
However if you use “short” where “long should be used, it makes smoke.
Usually electricity has to be connected to the ground to
work properly. The exception is in airplanes, which special arrangements
have been made for.
Boats are grounded via the prop shaft to and water.
Since saltwater conducts better then freshwater, boats can go faster in
the ocean than on a lake. However if they go to fast they jump out
of the water, thus loosing the ground connection and immediately fall back
into the water.
Electricity is made of two ingredients. One travels
in wire that is covered by black plastic. The flows in wire covered
with white plastic. These ingredients are mixed at a wall plug to
make consumer grade electricity.
Portable electricity is stored in batteries. Large
batteries do not necessarily hold more electricity than small ones.
Electricity is just piled in a haphazardly in a large batteries.
However, in transistor, watch and calculator batteries, the electricity
is stacked in neat and orderly fashion.
Light switches are simple clamping devices that squeeze the
wire hard enough to stop the flow of electrons.
Light from light bulbs is produced by having two uncovered
wires in close proximity to each other. Electricity applies
then spark between the two uncovered wires. The effect is then magnified
hundreds of times by the curved glass bulb, thus making enough light to
light up a room.
One would think that light bulbs would last indefinitely.
However “heat is converts oxygen to water”. When all the oxygen in the
bulb is converted to water, the arc is quenched and the bulb must be thrown
away because water & electricity cant be homogenized.
There is really only one brand of fuses and that company
has been in financial trouble for years as evident by their practice of
making the fuse wire to thin.
Fuses are an unnecessary evil. We have them because
the fuse company's brother is a member of congress and he passed a law
that says everyone they have to use fuses. In the old days we just
ties the wire together with square knots in a junction box.
Electrical appliance burst into flames if the switch
fails in the "on" position thus lettings too much electricity in.