All about Electricity

The Way Common Electronics Operate

DVD-recorder, telephone and Internet are fantastic inventions, but who knows how they operate? Not at all complicated, instead an entertaining ramble through the inside of electronic and electrical temptations.

Which cable for which connection, which plug for which reason and does the hairdryer really operate in foreign countries? Questions of no day-to-day character and which are most likely postponed. What a pitty. By some preparations, pluging together a computer is by far not that mysterious as presumed - and even a German hairdryer performs fine in Italy or Switzerland. Trouble may arose in the US. To learn more about using European appliances in US, you may have a look to page 20.

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