St John The Baptist Primary School, Portadown

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Inventors in the 1800s

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20th Sep 2022

This afternoon pupils learned a little about the timeline of discoveries about electricity and how these came to affect our everyday lives.
They learned about the first light bulbs, made by Swan and then his rival Thomas Edison, before having the chance to experiment themselves to create circuits to light bulbs 💡