Kids Corner

It's the POWER to do work. Energy makes everything GO! Click on "Kids Korner" to find out just what energy can do -- with experiments and more!

SMART GUY THOMAS EDISON

While inventing the first practical light bulb, Thomas Edison filled 200 notebooks with 40,000 handwritten pages! "Genius," he said, "is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration" -- plain old hard work!

AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT

When you turn on a light, you're drawing electricity all the way from a power plant to your light bulb. That power plant may be several hundred miles away. It's a good thing electricity can travel 186,000 miles per second! If you traveled that fast, you could travel around the world eight times in the time it takes to turn on a light switch.