The Electricity Museum
From static sparks to the power grid — how we tamed the most fundamental force in the universe. Build circuits, visualize fields, and trace 2,600 years of discovery.
Circuit Playground
Place wires, batteries, resistors, LEDs, and switches on the breadboard. Ohm's law (V = IR) and Joule's first law (P = IV) update live; close the loop and current starts to flow.
The Collection
32 artifacts spanning 2,600 years of electrical discovery — from amber rods to grid-scale batteries. Click any card to copy its description.
No artifacts in this category.
26 Centuries of Electricity
From 600 BC (Thales rubs amber) to the 2020s (grid-scale lithium and solid-state battery research).
Electric Field Visualizer
Place positive and negative charges to see electric field lines computed in real time — Coulomb's inverse-square law applied at every pixel. Drag charges to move them.
Field lines flow from + to −. Where they bunch up, the field is strong; where they spread out, weak. The same lines describe both forces and energy density.
Hands-on Instruments
Compare AC and DC waveforms, calculate power from voltage and current, and decode resistor color bands.