ELECTRICITY

Electricity is a very important thing for life today. There are very few people that can live without it. Imagine for just one minute that there were no lights, no computer, no phone, no nothing. What would you do honestly? Many people would say that they wouldn’t care but that’s not true. Most people would start to freak out.
Electricity hasn’t always been around. It was invented in New York in the late 1800’s. Could you imagine the excitement and fear all at once when Thomas Edison introduced it to the city of New York? Life was completely transformed. Mechanization was transformed.
Another thing that was completely transformed was consumer invention. There was an inventing school where many inventions were discovered but few were actually introduced to the public. As more inventions were made at the school people were making more money. There were more jobs offered. All this because of the discovery of electricity.
There were many up sides to electrical power. One big one was that it was safer then gas lighting. Mrs. Roosevelt at first didn’t want to switch to electricity because she thought it was more dangerous then gas lighting. Little did she know that gas lighting was way more dangerous then electric. Gas lighting would and still does cause way more fires then electric.
So next time you lose power in your house don’t freak out just because you don’t have TV. Look at it as an experiment. See if you can live for a few minutes or hours even like people did before electricity was ever introduced or invented. Do you think you can do it? Try it! I dare you!