哦，你电到我啦!这是这个干燥的季节里常听到的一句话。大伙都了解这是静电有哪些用途。电已经成为现代日常不可或缺的能源之一。电灯、电话、电脑、电冰箱带电的东西简直不胜枚举，可是你了解静电（static electricity）是哪个最早发现的吗，为何电的英文是Electricity，是哪个为这种看不见摸不到却叫人感到麻麻的东西起的名字？
Perhaps you've gotten a shock from touching1 a doorknob after walking on a carpet. You might even have seen a spark jump. These activities result from static electricity. .If you rub a comb on a piece of cloth, you'll find that scraps2 of paper will stick to the comb afterwards. If you have ever tried this, you have repeated an experiment done by Thales about 600B, and C.E and Gilbert in 1570.They both saw the effects of static electricity. Thales, a Greek,, was one of the first to describe what happened when amber3 was rubbed with a bit of wool. Later, British scientist William Gillbert repeated and expanded on the experiment. He named the effects electricity after the Greek word for amber, elektron.
amber: 琥珀