How we found out aboutContents 1, RUBBING AND ATTRACTING 2. CONDUCTORS AND NON-CONDUCTORS FLUIDS AND JARS 4, POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE BATTERIES AND GENERATORS INDEX1. Rubbing and attracting The story of electricity begins 2,500 years ago near the western coast of the land we now call Turkey, In that place there was a city called Magnesia where the people spoke Greek. Near the city a shepherd boy watched his sheep, The story is that he used a stick with an iron tip to climb over stony places ‘One day, he touched the top to a stone and it happened to stick a little, Could the stone have something sticky on it? He touched it with his finger. It wasn’t sticky at all Nothing stuck to it except for the iron tip of his stick. The shepherd boy told others about this odd rock. A wise man named ‘Thales lived in that area. Today he would be called a scientist. He hearcl about this stone from Magnesia and had such a stone brought to him. It attracted iron objects and nothing else—just iron objects, ‘Thales called it the “magnetic stone” after the name of the city, We call ita “magnet”. Thales wondered how a piece of dead stone could attract and pull something to itself, He wondered why it should only attract iron, Did 7