Post by ChrisB on Jun 19, 2014 0:11:14 GMT
This is a true story!
The greatest electrical pioneer of them all was Thomas Edison, who was a brilliant inventor despite the fact that he had little formal education and lived in New Jersey. Edison's first major invention in 1877 was the phonograph, which could soon be found in thousand of homes, where it basically sat on the sideboard doing nothing until 1923, when the record was invented.
But Edison's greatest achievement came in 1879 when he invented the electric company. Edison's design was a brilliant adaptation of the simple electrical circuit: the electric company sends electricity through a wire to a customer, then immediately gets the electricity back from the customer through another wire. Then, amazingly (......and this is the really brilliant part) the company sends it right back to the customer again.
This means that an electric company can sell a customer the same packet of electricity thousands of times a day and never get caught since very few customers take the time to examine their electricity closely. In fact, the last year any new electricity was generated was 1937.
Here's another true story.
There was a man called Nikola Tesla who learnt how to steal the electricity before it went back to the power generating company.
Here's some CCTV footage of one of his heists. If you look really carefully, you'll see he's putting it into a bag marked 'Swag'. ......like I said.....true story.
The greatest electrical pioneer of them all was Thomas Edison, who was a brilliant inventor despite the fact that he had little formal education and lived in New Jersey. Edison's first major invention in 1877 was the phonograph, which could soon be found in thousand of homes, where it basically sat on the sideboard doing nothing until 1923, when the record was invented.
But Edison's greatest achievement came in 1879 when he invented the electric company. Edison's design was a brilliant adaptation of the simple electrical circuit: the electric company sends electricity through a wire to a customer, then immediately gets the electricity back from the customer through another wire. Then, amazingly (......and this is the really brilliant part) the company sends it right back to the customer again.
This means that an electric company can sell a customer the same packet of electricity thousands of times a day and never get caught since very few customers take the time to examine their electricity closely. In fact, the last year any new electricity was generated was 1937.
Here's another true story.
There was a man called Nikola Tesla who learnt how to steal the electricity before it went back to the power generating company.
Here's some CCTV footage of one of his heists. If you look really carefully, you'll see he's putting it into a bag marked 'Swag'. ......like I said.....true story.
