Introduction
Hii there everyone, welcome at a new article. Today I'd like to talk about electricity. It's kind of funny, because yesterday at the article from Georgia (LoveIsALaserquest) there was a song from Billy Elliot, called 'Electricity'. When I made up the topic for my article and I saw it, I kinda thought it was funny.
But I'm going to talk about electricity. Because what could we do without it? I can't think of a world , without electricity in these days. What could I possibly do without my laptop, mobile or tv? Or without the simple things, like light so we can see what we're doing or the fridge/freezer, to cool our food. I really had to think for a few examples, because it's just normal for me to have those things. That's kind of the reason why I think it was interesting to make an article about this. We can do a lot without electricity, but we just became easy, lazy people. (Don't take the lazy thing in a bad way please.) Since everything from 2k15 (2015) is normal for us, we're going to look back today how people survived like a hundred years back. How did they do their laundry, how did they cool down their food when it was like a 30 degrees and how could they see in the evening or night? We're going back to the simple time!
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The little house on the prairie.
Have you ever heard of this series? The time where the little house was performed/played in, was somewhere in 1800. They didn't have electricity back then. They didn't have a dishwasher to wash their dishes, they did everything with their hand. They did have gas, so they could warm up some water. They didn't have a shower, so they had to wash theirselves in a bathtub. And how could they see in the dark? They had maybe one lamp, but they mostly used oil lamps. It would be strange for me to use oil to burn a lamp, but it worked like a sort of candle. If you light it with fire, then it burns. Kind of cool when electricity falls out, isn't it? And how about school? They didn't have a car, maybe the rich people had it. Most of the people went from the one to the other place with a horse. I would love it to ride on a horse, but I think it's kind of hard, even though lots of people could ride horses back then. They also didn't have a fridge or freezer back then. They had a little barn, where they didn't have light at all. That's the way how they cooled down their food. If you hide food in dark, deep places, it stays cold. I don't even want to talk about the toilet, but I think that everyone already knows how that went. Somewhere in a little booth outside, they had a whole in a wooden shelf and they sat on that. And someone had to clean that once in a while. I'm kind of very glad with my toilet that flushes away everything.
Now is the Little house on the prairie just an example, but things did go the way I just described. I'm glad things changed, but if you would ask it to me, I don't need more change. No robots and such, because then lots of people will lose their jobs. That's what brings me to the bad side of electricity.
The bad sides of electricity
One of the bad sides of electricity is that if the power cuts off, you don't have anything in this time. You'll have candles, but you can't charge anything, you can't cook if you cook with an electric gas cooker, (which we have at home) you can't do a thing. (Well maybe a chocolate or cheese fondue, so you'll have food.)
The second bad side of electricity is that everything is becoming better and better and more modern. Every year there's a smart person that makes something new, which replaces something old fashion. For example there are robots. They replace people. That means that there are less jobs. That's a big concern, because if there are less jobs, then there will be more poor people. More people without homes, more people who are looking for food and shelter. I'm scared for that future, but it's coming. I've seen a documentary about this topic at school. It's very concerning. So maybe it was better back in 1800 and before.
History of electricity
Last, but not least, because it's important to know what electricity exactly is. Do you guys know that guy, Benjamin Franklin? Well, he was one of the most important people from the big list. Lots of people have done their research to electricity, but it kind of all started in the year 1746, where Benjamin Franklin experimented with electricity. In 1752 he experimented with lightning and he made a lightning rod.
A few years later, in 1800, Alessandro Volta made an electric battery. Two years later, Humphry Davy found out how to make light with electricity. After those experiments there happend a lot. More than ten inventors found out how electricity worked. Inventions came and came. It didn't stop. If you really like to know the whole electricity history, then you could look it up at Wikipedia. It's very interesting to read about it, but it's too much to put in here.
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