- Electricity travels at the speed of light - more than 186,000 miles per second!
- A spark of static electricity can measure up to three thousand (3,000) volts.
- A bolt of lightning can measure up to three million (3,000,000) volts - and it lasts less than one second!
- Electricity always tries to find the easiest path to the ground.
- The most common way of producing electricity in Pakistan is by burning oil and gas.
- Burning of oil and gas is the most common way electricity is made in Pakistan.
- One power plant can produce enough electricity for 180,000 homes.
- The first power plant - owned by Thomas Edison - opened in New York City in 1882.
- Thomas Edison did not invent the first light bulb - but he did invent one that stayed lit for more than a few seconds.
- Thomas Edison invented more than 2,000 new products, including almost everything needed for us to use electricity in our homes: switches, fuses, sockets and meters.
- Benjamin Franklin did not discover electricity - but he did prove that lightning is a form of electrical energy.
