Electricity

Did you know that the word “Electron” was first “Elektron”? An Elektron was actually amber. The person who thought of that was William Gilbert.

He called it that because when he rubbed the amber on dry cloth, it attracted small things. That was Static. For homework, we made an electroscope. We inflated a ballon and rubbed it on felt, cloth, or even our hair! To make the electroscope, I cut a cardboard circle to the shape of a glass and cut a line to the middle, straightened out a paper clip except for the hook in the middle, stuck into the line in the cardboard circle, and then I put two tinfoil teardrops onto the hook on the paperclip, and taped the cardboard onto the cup. Remember the ballon? After rubbing it on my hair, I put it up to the paperclip, but didn’t touch it to it. The two tinfoil teardrops spread apart from each other. The static from the ballon transferred through the paperclip to the tinfoil and made them move.

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