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...b|upright 1.10|Franklin's electrostatic machine <br /> on display at the [[Franklin Institute]]]] ...n jar]]{{snd}}a high-voltage [[capacitor]]{{snd}}to accumulate the charge. Franklin's experiments with the machine eventually led to new theories about [[elect ...

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...phrase "philosophy of technology" was first used in the late 19th century by German-born philosopher and geographer [[Ernst Kapp]], who published a book ..., as well as an inner teleological final cause. While ''techne'' is shaped by an outside cause and an outside ''[[Telos (philosophy)|telos]]'' (goal or e ...

...r, negative charge is carried by electrons, and positive charge is carried by the protons in the [[atomic nucleus|nuclei]] of [[atom]]s. If there are mor ...ulomb's law]] quantifies the electrostatic [[force]] between two particles by asserting that the force is proportional to the product of their charges, a ...

{{redirect|Universal man|the sculpture by Canadian artist Gerald Gladstone|Universal Man}} ...3x283px|[[Benjamin Franklin]] is one of the foremost polymaths in history. Franklin was a writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer and politic ...

...develops by its own laws, that it realizes its own potential, limited only by the material resources available and the creativity of its developers. It m ...n science''. This is especially true when related to the concept developed by [[Alexander Ivanovich Mikhailov|A. I. Mikhailov]] and other Soviet authors ...

...ntury, researchers had developed practical means of generating electricity by friction, but the development of electrostatic machines did not begin in ea ...ite signs rendered to two conductors, using only electric forces, and work by using moving plates, drums, or belts to carry electric charge to a high [[E ...

...to considerable development and variation since the replacement of candles by electric lights.{{citation needed|date=August 2012}} While originally used ...cently. These lights produce a broad-spectrum white light, and are colored by coating the glass envelope with a translucent paint which acts as a color [ ...

...], both being part of the phenomenon of [[electromagnetism]], as described by [[Maxwell's equations]]. Common phenomena are related to electricity, inclu ...icity's industrial and residential application by [[electrical engineers]] by the century's end. This rapid expansion in electrical technology at the tim ...

...ectric current; the original composition of the electrodes can be restored by reverse current. Examples include the [[Lead–acid battery|lead–acid batteri ...common [[fuel]]s such as gasoline. In automobiles, this is somewhat offset by the higher efficiency of electric motors in converting electrical energy to ...

...ism. The ancients were acquainted with rather curious properties possessed by two minerals, [[amber]] ({{lang-grc-gre|ἤλεκτρον}}, {{transliteration|grc|ē ...this "predates the Chinese discovery of the geomagnetic lodestone compass by more than a millennium".<ref name="John B. Carlson 753">{{cite journal | la ...

...education.mrsec.wisc.edu/triboelectricity/ |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Triboelectricity |date=2020 |work=Education.MRSEC.Wisc.edu ...first8=H. |date=2007 |title=Triboelectrification of pharmaceutical powders by particle impact |journal=International Journal of Pharmaceutics |volume=334 ...

...[fringe science|fringe topics]] and determining whether they are supported by [[empirical research]] and are [[reproducibility|reproducible]], as part of ...human reason and the mechanisms of deception so as to avoid being deceived by others or themselves".<ref>{{cite web|title=Skepticblog|url=http://www.skep ...

...have dramatic consequences, as illustrated by the use of friction created by [[Fire making#Friction|rubbing pieces of wood together to start a fire]]. [ ...he weight pressing the surfaces together. This view was further elaborated by [[Bernard Forest de Bélidor]]<ref>[[Bernard Forest de Bélidor|Forest de Bél ...

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...e flow of [[surface water]] or underground streams. [[Reservoir]]s created by dams not only suppress floods but also provide water for activities such as ...e arch-gravity dam, was built between 1931 and 1936 on the Colorado River. By 1997, there were an estimated 800,000 dams worldwide, with some 40,000 of t ...

...ts contents (sample postcard and insert shown above) were launched in 1959 by the [[United States Coast and Geodetic Survey]] and were found in 2013.<ref ...e]]s, [[balloon mail]], and containers storing medical information for use by emergency medical personnel. ...

...erpowers are states so influential that no significant action can be taken by the global community without first considering the positions of the superpo ...Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations since 1776] (Published 2008), by Professor George C. Herring (Professor of History at Kentucky University)</ ...

...rain the use of the word to just the study of [[arithmetic]] and geometry. By the time of [[Aristotle]] (384–322&nbsp;BC) this meaning was fully establis ...her=Dover Publications |quote=... mathematics has come down to the present by the two main streams of number and form. The first carried along arithmetic ...