9 Cool Facts About Electricity.

1. COOL FACTS ABOUT ELECTRICITY THESE ARE NINE COOL FACTS ABOUT ELECTRICITY. ELECTRICITY SPEED 1 Electricity travels at 6,696,000 miles per hour. LIGHTNING BOLT 2 The typical lightning bolt packs 100 million volts. HEART FUNCTIONING AND ELECTRICITY 3 Electricity plays an important role in the way your heart functions. Muscle cells in the heart are contracted by electricity that runs through your body. Medical-Equipment-ECG-Monitor. ECG MACHINES 4 Electrocardiogram (ECG) machines are used in hospitals to measure the electricity flowing through a patient’s heart, displaying a line that spikes with every heartbeat. WHAT’S A VOLT? 5 A unit of electric force, measuring the potential strength of the current. THE FIRST LIGHT BULB 6 Edison made the first public demonstration of his incandescent light bulb on December 31, 1879, in Menlo Park. It was during this time that he said: "We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles." EELS 7 Electric eels can produce shocks of 500 volts or more. NICHOLA TESLA BORN 8 Nichola Tesla was born during a lightning storm. He invented the first alternating current (AC) motor and developed AC generation and transmission technology. FIRST ELCTRICITY CAR 9 The first successful electric car was built in 1891 by American inventor William Morrison. WWW.SALTERELECTRIC.COM