A famous British scientist once stated at the end of the 19th century that electricity was no more than a fashionable craze. How has the invention of electricity changed our lives? And how would our lives look like without electricity?
Firstly, we use a lot of equipment, without thinking how they work. Many of them work using electricity as a source of energy. We realize this fact just at the moment when the source of electricity is unavailable – the system of providing us with electricity is out of work or the battery is empty.
Secondly, although we use a lot of equipment based on electricity as the source of energy, many of them represent only the way how to make our life more simple and easier. But some of them we need for “normal being”. From my point of view, it is electricity as a source of light (electric bulbs in their wide variability) and a source for equipment producing heat (electric cooker) or cold (refrigerator). On the contrary, I can imagine our life without TV, phone, radio – there is an endless list of examples.
Moreover, I have knowledge from many SCI-FI books I have read. So, I could imagine that if electricity had not been invented, we would have used some equipment based on the different sources, for example memories based on the neurons and machines based on the artificial stomach as the source of energy.
Generally speaking, human beings have huge potential to invent. According to ideas from the book “Darkness” by Ondřej Neff based on idea the idea “the principle of electricity can be temporarily switched off”, if the principle of energy did not work, we would adapt to new circumstances. As they say in the USA: “Yes, we can”.
Taking everything into account, people are able to adapt to any circumstances. If there had been no electricity, human beings would have been able to invent a different source of energy and to use it. Therefore, the British scientist was proved very wrong – it is, without doubt, one of the most important inventions of all time.
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