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Thales of Miletus, a Greek philosopher, discovered that rubbing amber with silk created an electric charge in the amber which caused objects to be attracted to it. If rubbed enough, it created a spark, much like we receive when we walk on carpet and touch a doorknob and see, hear and feel the spark.
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Why is Electricity called Electricity?
It comes from the Greek word "electron." However, to the Greeks that word didn't mean what it does to us; it meant the material we call amber. It's called that because one of the first noticed electrical phenomena was that if you rubbed a piece of amber with a cloth you could build up a static charge and make a small spark.
Compound words that start with cloth?
compound word for cloth
What is 40 yards of cloth called?
in medieval times a standard bolt of cloth was 40 cloth-yards (37 inches) in length
What is a compound word with cloth in it?
What us a word to mack cloth to make a compound word
How many inches are in 1 yard of cloth?
One sq yd of cloth has 1296 square inches in it
Explain clearly what happened when Thales rubbed the amber with the silk cloth?
it created an electrical charge
Who discovered static electricity in 600 BC?
A philosopher named Thales discovered it when he rubbed a cloth on a hard-fossilized material called Amber it would pick the straw in his barn up.
When did thales of milletus discover electricity?
Thales discovered static electricity by rubbing a peice of amber against a silk cloth.
What happened when thale rubbed the amber with silk cloth?
when amber is rubbed with silk cloth +ve charge comes on silk cloth and -ve on amber due to interaction between their molecules, so is that when we comb our hairs , then -ve charge comes on comb and +ve on hairs,so when we bring silk cloth near the comb they attract each other due to 'ving opposite charges
Who invented the electrosatic generator?
The Greeks first wrote about static electricity generation. A silk cloth rubbed on an amber rod.
When was Greek static electricity found?
over 2500 years ago when they rubbed amber with cloth it attracted small objects
What will happened to the sand if you placed the balloon rubbed with woolen cloth near it?
the sand would stand up
What will happen if a glass ruler is rubbed vigorously on a woolen cloth?
A plastic ruler is rubbed vigorously with a woolen cloth
When a glass rod is rubbed with a silk cloth which substance looses electron?
Silk Cloth
Amber was used by the greeks to study what?
The Greeks used the amber to study the concept of magnetism for the first time . They observed that it acquires a strange property of attracting tiny bits of papers,metal pieces etc. when rubbed with a piece of wool .this strange characteristic of it made the further discoveries possible.+++That's not magnetism but static electricity, the charge being developed by rubbing the amber with the dry cloth. Amber is non-magnetic.
What is thales experiment?
Thales of miletus (an ancient greek city) experimented with electromagnetics and in that way created what today we know as static electricity. He waved a rod over a cloth with thingees on it and created electromagnetics.
What kind of electric charge gets developed on the glass rod when it is rubbed with a piece of silk cloth?
When glass rod is rubbed with silk cloth it becomes positively charged and the silk cloth becomes negatively charged. This is because the glass rod looses electrons to the silk cloth which makes it positive and the silk cloth becomes negative.
