PARTunit精要.pptVIP

* * We are so used to electric lights, radio, televisions, telephones and Internet that it is hard to imagine what life would be like without them [ 1 ]. In electricity’s absence, people grope about in flickering candlelight, cars hesitate in the streets because there are no traffic lights to guide them, and food spoils in silent refrigerators, to talk over long distance we are left with smoke signals and postcards. * * Many years ago, scientists had very vague ideas about electricity [ 2 ]. About 2,000 years ago, Wang Chong, a Chinese philosopher, discovered that if one rubbed