The battery as we know it today was an invention of Italian chemist and physicist Alessandro Volta. He witnessed electricity splitting water into its constituent elements of oxygen and hydrogen and ...

The evacuation of bulk electrical power over long distances can be done mainly by high voltage alternating current (HVAC) ...

There are two main types of electrical current that flow through your home: Alternating and direct. The vast majority of devices around you are powered by alternating current. By allowing electrons to ...

As the story goes, the rock band AC/DC took its name from a label on an old sewing machine in the Young brothers’ home. It must have meant that the machine could run on either alternating-current or ...

The world of electric vehicles can sometimes seem like it comes with its own vocabulary, and that's where we come in. Look out for our ABC of EVs series, to demystify the words and phrases you'll hear ...

Used to deliver power to your home, office, and any other building you can think of, alternating current (AC) voltage is relied on to provide power flawlessly on a daily basis. But why isn’t direct ...

You can't live without your smart phone charger. I understand that. However, the charger needs a DC supply. DC stands for Direct Current (this means that you can't say "DC Current" - that would be ...

The ACSN100-AE-F AC current switch has a fixed setpoint of 0.5 A and monitors current up to 100 A. The normally open solid-state switch output rated for 120 VAC/DC, 0.15 A and has a small size, making ...

Poor Topsy. Thomas Edison killed the ex-circus elephant, electrocuting the animal to demonstrate how dangerous alternating current was. Edison even described electrocution as being “Westinghoused,” ...

THE winds of the Oklahoma panhandle have a bad reputation. In the 1930s they whipped its over-tilled topsoil up into the billowing black blizzards of the Dust Bowl. The winds drove people, Steinbeck’s ...