Hardly a modern invention, the electric car has a long history. Interest has boomeranged over the years based on consumer trends and economics.

THE International Inventions Exhibition is intended o to illustrate the progress of invention during the period that has elapsed since the last Great International Exhibition in this country in the ...

The Secondary Generators of Messrs. Gaulard and Gibbs HITHERTO there have been two means employed for electric illumination and the electric transmission of energy—viz. supplying the electricity ...

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Hello, everyone! In 1799, an Italian scientist named Alessandro Volta invented electricity, and one and a half centuries ...

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Even if the Earth runs out of oil and gas, and a dense veil of smog plunges the world into darkness, we will still have electricity to charge smartphones and film the beginning of the end! There is at ...

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Aurora Energy has publicly launched a device invented by its employees to detect a dangerous electrical fault that has challenged the electricity industry worldwide for decades. The world-first ...