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Most people, who were at school for longer than 3-5 years, should be able to recreate a simplest generator having wires and magnets. Not sure about magnets, but wires were in produce for a few millenniums.
cries in American public education and lack of using brain as an adult
Yeah, blame THEM. Of course despicable THEY never told poor schoolchildren how the generator/electric engine works. I totally believe you. I believe you even more deeply than I believe to your president.
Huh? Should we not be blaming the shitty US education system for failing so many?
I doubt that it is THAT bad.
Oh, it's very very bad.
The basic stuff you're mentioning about electricity is not taught in US highschools (I can't speak to AP classes).
The only reason I know any of it is because I took physics in college
Sorry, but I don't believe you. There is no way that USA school curriculum lacks basic things like Ohm law, magnetism, etc. It just can't be. Yes, I heard that in the USA curriculum isn't country-wide, so it might change from state to state, but not to this nonsensical degree.
I don't even think every high school student here even takes Physics class.
I didn't learn about electromagnetism until Physics 200 in University.
What do I do with the generator? Shock people? Powering a light bulb is out of the question.
Make a fan. It’s just a generator but the other way
Okay, thanks, I will.
Why? But if you're afraid of light, you might create a heater. Very simple construction.
Because light bulbs didn’t exist yet I guess, so you also need the knowlede to convert it into steady light source.
I'm sure you have an overall understanding how light bulb works. Enough to make something workable after a few experiments.
Sure, I'm not a glasblower, but I could fabricate a lightbulb that contains a vacuum and a hair thin wolfram wire.
I don't even know how to mine wolfram.
Knowledge sadly isn't everything.
You don't need neither vacuum nor wolfram for the lightbulb. Return to school. And don't come back:)
Yes, finding a good wire would be problematic in the paleolit, but ancient Greeks already had wires (for jewelry or chainmails purposes) and natural magnets too. Nothing overcomplicated for those who know that electricity isn't a blue fluid flowing in the wall outlets.