EEVblog 1506 - History of Electricity with Kathy Loves Physics

Talking about the history of electricity and physics with Kathy Joseph from Kathey Loves Physics, and her new book: The Lightning Tamers: True Stories of the Dreamers and Schemers Who Harnessed Electricity and Transformed Our World. Also talk about her youtube channel and script and book writing process. LINKS: Website: The Lightning Tamers book: YouTube Channel: Go Fund Me (for Audio book): Patreon: 00:00 - Kathy Loves Physics Youtube channel 04:34 - The Lightning Tamers Book 06:18 - Black Magic 08:28 - The Youtube comments and nutcases 11:09 - Learn engineering by studying history 12:12 - The process of writing the book 16:34 - Where is Maxwell? 20:34 - You’ve semi-written HOW MANY books? 26:40 - How long does it take to make one video? 30:03 - The book in more detail and the characters of electrical engineering. 33:49 - Who invented the term Electrician? 37:29 - Technical progress was slow back in early days of electricity. Systems vs People 42:08 - People feel like they know you 46:50 - Were they geniuses? 49:12 - The dielectric constant was a STUPID idea! 51:27 - Faraday gave a legendary talk because Wheatstone chickened out 54:28 - Maxwells equations 55:31 - Hertz passed on solving a problem 59:28 - Einstein 01:05:15 - The photoelectric effect was invented by Hertz 01:06:56 - One one talks about Philipp Lenard because... 01:11:57 - War of the Current movie. How accurate is it? 01:14:08 - Thoughts on Tesla 01:18:28 - Tesla vs Edison 01:24:28 - Tesla sucked at maths and had wacky theories 01:26:42 - The Tesla free energy nutters 01:28:20 - Veritasium and energy flowing outside wires 01:30:28 - The Ether 01:31:56 - Thomas Young and the double slit experiment 01:36:29 - Audio book version, publishers, and text books Forum: Support the EEVblog on: Patreon: Odysee: @eevblog:7 Web Site: EEVblog2: EEVdiscover: AliExpress Affiliate: Buy anything through that link and Dave gets a commission at no cost to you. Donate With Bitcoin & Other Crypto Currencies! T-Shirts: #ElectronicsCreators #History #Electricity Теги: eevblog,video,kathy loves physics,faraday,maxwell,electricity,history