Electrical machine
Alright, let’s dive into the world of electrical machines. These are pretty fundamental pieces of kit in electrical engineering. Think of them as the workhorses that bridge the gap between electrical power and mechanical power.
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Electrical engineering
Okay, so you’re interested in Electrical Engineering, huh? Think of it as the field that deals with all the cool stuff involving electricity, electronics, and how they interact through electromagnetism. Electrical engineers are the folks who study, design, and build everything from the tiny chips inside your phone to the massive power grids that light up cities.
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Electrical conductor
Okay, let’s talk about conductors. In electrical engineering, when we say “conductor,” we mean something – a material or an object made of that material – that’s good at letting electric charge flow through it. Think of it like a pipe for electricity.
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Electrical circuit
Think of an electrical circuit like a complete loop or pathway that electricity can travel through. For electricity (specifically, electric charge) to move and do useful work, it needs a closed path. If the path is broken anywhere, the electricity stops flowing, just like water stops flowing if a pipe is broken.
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Electric telegraph
Alright, let’s dive into something pretty cool from the early days of electrical engineering: the electric telegraph. Before cell phones, before the internet, even before telephones were common, the telegraph was the fastest way to send messages over long distances. It was a massive leap forward, all thanks to using electricity.
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Electric current
Okay, let’s break down the world of electric current so you can get a solid handle on it from an electrical engineering point of view. Think of this as your guide.
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Edward Davy
Alright, let’s talk about a fellow named Edward Davy. He was a pretty clever person from England back in the 1800s. While trained as a doctor, he also had a big interest in science and inventing, especially when it came to the early days of sending messages using electricity – what we call telegraphy.
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ENIAC
Alright, let’s talk about the ENIAC. Think of it as one of the grand-daddies of modern computers, a truly massive and groundbreaking machine from the 1940s. For anyone interested in electrical engineering, understanding ENIAC isn’t just history; it’s seeing the fundamental ideas of electronic computation taking shape on a grand, sometimes challenging, scale. It was the first machine to tick all the boxes: electronic, programmable, general-purpose, and digital. Others had some of these, but ENIAC brought them all together.
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