Electricity - Unseen Fuel of Modern Life

Just as coal enabled the industrial revolution, electricity is the unseen fuel of modern life. The dramatic increase in the use of electricity for domestic and industrial purposes proves that electrical energy plays an important part in our society.

It is impossible to imagine what our lives would be like without access to this source of energy.

  • Technologies associated with electricity have made our lives easier.

  • Modern society is indeed unworkable without the existence of electrical appliances.

  • Likewise, emerging telecommunication and information services have greatly enhanced the ability of individuals and groups to communicate with each other and have facilitated the speed of information to persons and machines in both urban and rural environments.

Whatever the particular field of services, possession of basic knowledge forms the basis for the performance of many varied tasks that today’s engineer is called on by industry and employers to do-and to do well.

               

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