TECHNOLOGY OF ELCTRICITY: A MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH FOR MANKIND

Electricity is one of the most important blessings that science has given to mankind. It has also become a part of modern life and one cannot think of a world without it. Electricity has many uses in our day to day life. It is used for lighting rooms, working fans and domestic appliances like using electric stoves, A/C and more. All these provide comfort to people. In factories, large machines are worked with the help of electricity. Essential items like food, cloth, paper and many other things are the product of electricity.

Modern means of transportation and communication have been revolutionised by it. Electric trains and battery cars are quick means of travel. Electricity also provides means of amusement, radio, television and cinema, which are the most popular forms of entertainment are the result of electricity. Modern equipment like computers and robots have also been developed because of electricity. Electricity plays a pivotal role in the fields of medicines and surgery too — such as X-ray, ECG. The use of electricity is increasing day by day.

Just try to imagine your life without electricity, and all of the related modern electronic gadgets we all take for granted. This includes your mobile devices and social networking.

If the discovery of electricity (and everything derived from it) were to somehow be erased from all of humanity, we would instantly be thrown back over 150 years into the past. Not only would we lose all of the modern conveniences we so much enjoy, but a lot of people whose lives currently depend on modern technology to keep them alive (in hospitals, for example) would die.

 Economies worldwide would shrink by orders of magnitude, food and other much-needed supplies could no longer be delivered to those who need it, and even more people would die. Knowledge would no longer be in any sort of electronic format, complex data analysis would become impossible, and instant communication with anyone not within earshot away would be impossible. High-speed travel would be limited to the speed at which horses can gallop, or maybe, just maybe, the speed of purely-mechanical steam trains (with no means of electronic communication).

Electricity has become a vital and indispensable energy source. It is always going to be part of our lives in one form or another and there will always be a need  to generate, distribute electricity.