班傑明富蘭克林與電 Benjamin Franklin and Electricity
電力在1940年代出現於人類世界中,但和今日我們所理解的並不相同,人們運用電力作為神奇花招的素材、製造火花與電擊等效果。科學家們運用電力執行實驗,但數百年來對於電力的科學思考並沒有多大改變,電力並未成為「有用的」東西。
班傑明富蘭克林對於電力相當感興趣,他是一個充滿好奇心、極具創造力的思考家,富蘭克林希望知道更多在常見把戲之外的電力特質,他不斷思考、終於有了一個非常重要的想法。
Electricity was on people's minds in the 1740s, but not in the way we think about it today. People used electricity for magic tricks by creating sparks and shocks. Scientists conducted experiments with electricity, but scientific thinking about electricity had not changed much in hundreds of years. Electricity wasn't "useful" yet.
Benjamin Franklin was interested in electricity. Being a curious and inventive thinker, Franklin wanted to know more than just the popular tricks. He kept thinking about electricity and came up with a very important idea.
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