electric current

flow of electric charge

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Also known as current, electrical current, electron current

Notable quotes

“Striking the electric chain wherewith we are darkly bound.”
— Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV (1818), Stanza 23.
“We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.”
— Thomas Edison, in a statement to a reporter during the first public demonstration of his incandescent (31 December 1879), as quoted in Chronology of Americans and the Environment (2011) by Chris J. Magoc, p. 46.
“Without electricity, there can be no art.”
— Nam June Paik, in "Nam June Paik retrospective, Liverpool" by Emma O'Kelly in Wallpaper (20 December 2010).
“Go hug your girlfriend! Or if you don't have any, go find one! You won't find the meaning of life with electricity!”
— Pex Tufvesson, "Mahoney of "Kaktus & Mahoney" in an interview at Remix64 (26 September 2001).
“Notwithstanding my experiments with electricity the thunderbolt continues to fall under our noses and beards; and as for the tyrant, there are a million of us still engaged at snatching away his sceptre.”
— Benjamin Franklin, comment on Tubgot's inscription in a letter to Felix Nogaret, who translated the lines into French.
“Russia is the largest energy power. The country with a unique energy system, one of the leaders in generating electricity and supplying it to the global market. This is the result of your hard work and professionalism. Each of you (energy complex's worker and veteran) does everything to ensure that the country's energy system stays reliable.”
— Mikhail Mishustin (2021) cited in: "Russia is one of global leaders in electricity supplies — PM Mishustin" in TASS, 22 December 2021.

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