[TenTec] electron flow vs. current flow

[Sherrill WATKINS]

Actually, I believe it was Benjamin Franklin who postulated in about circa 1750 that electricity flows because of an attraction from positive to negative poles.  Also, it was Franklin that postulated the theory (correct) that lightning is the flow of electric charges and therefore offered the first scientific explanation that lightning is the flow of electricity.   Franklin also postulated correctly that lightning will favor an attraction to a point over a sphere or flat surface and from this he correctly developed the theory of the lightning rod, now called the "air terminal".   However, my cathodic protection engineer friend is adamant that current flows from positive to negative. - sherrill  k4own


>>> "Dan Cox" <tacquire@earthlink.net> 10/18/00 02:43PM >>>
hehe, it's really amazing that the myth ever got started.  Supposedly it was
easier around the turn of the century to explain electricity if you
explained it in the reverse of how it actually works..  Imagine these
people's confusion when they started learning about vacuum tubes for
instance!  The logic just DOES NOT work!!


----- Original Message -----
From: "Sherrill WATKINS" <SEWATKINS@dgs.state.va.us>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 10:47 AM
Subject: [TenTec] electron flow vs. current flow


>
> A friend of mine, who is a cathodic protection engineer, states that in
the cathodic (corrosion) protection business,  he installs sacrificial
anodes on buried gas piplines to protect against corrosion.  He also states
that  current flows from the positive to the negative pole but electrons
flow from the negative to the positive pole!  -  Sherrill   k4own
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