In January of 1912, almost 20 years after the “war of the currents” was over

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In July of 1898, Marie Sklodoska Curie and her husband Pierre Curie published the discovery

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In June of 1939, 37-year-old Werner Heisenberg went on a tour of America for a

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If you clicked on this link you know that Coulomb’s law often a bit of

When I looked into the history of Charles Coulomb and his famous equation, I found

Boltzmann’s entropy formula is possibly the one of the most difficult equations in Physics. Not

In late October of 1911, 31-year-old Albert Einstein went to an elite and influential conference

The photoelectric effect is taught in almost every physics class but we often forget to

When we talk about the photoelectric effect, we usually only mention Albert Einstein.  After all,

How was radium discovered in an unventilated shed?  Why was radioactivity discovered and called radioactivity? 

JJ Thomson discovered the electron in 1897 and there are tons of videos about it. 

There are quite a few videos about how Roentgen discovered the x-ray, but most really

So, why is an x-ray called an x-ray?  The short answer is that when Wilhelm

On November 8thof 1895, a shy and diligent scientist named Wilhelm Roentgen saw a flicker

On November 8th of 1895, a man named Wilhelm Roentgen turned on a covered vacuum

Let’s start in early 1857 in a laboratory in Bonn, Germany.  That is where a

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The superheterodyne method is where two signals are mixed to make a lower frequency signal

Positive feedback in electronics, or when a small change is feed into a loop to

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What have you heard about Tesla? That he invented Alternating Current (AC)? That he and

According to many people, Guglielmo Marconi invented the wireless telegraph.  In fact, his name was

You might have seen the crazy cool demonstrations conducted with Tesla coils but how do

In the late 1800s there was a battle between different types of electricity, alternating and

How did Thomas Edison go from poverty to creating an electric empire as well as

Most of our electricity comes from power plants that use a generator to, ahem, generate

Was there a real Dr. Frankenstein?  Yes, there was, his name was Giovanni Aldini and

Why would a math teacher named Joseph Henry invent the telegraph?  And didn’t Samuel Morse