I will never forget the surprise I got when I received my first electrical shock.
At the time I was a little under 5 years old. We lived in California where the electric power is 120 VAC @ 60 Hz. We had a pop-up toaster on the kitchen counter upon which I often sat and sometimes gazed into the back of the AM table radio and admired the glowing vacuum tubes and watched the tuning capacitor, wondering how it changed stations.
One day morning my dad was making toast and when it was time for the toast to pop up, it got stuck, so my father got out a dinner knife and dug it out. Sometime later I was in the kitchen up on the counter next to the toaster with the dinner knife in my hand. I had failed to notice that my father had unplugged the toaster before using the knife...
At the time I was a little under 5 years old. We lived in California where the electric power is 120 VAC @ 60 Hz. We had a pop-up toaster on the kitchen counter upon which I often sat and sometimes gazed into the back of the AM table radio and admired the glowing vacuum tubes and watched the tuning capacitor, wondering how it changed stations.
One day morning my dad was making toast and when it was time for the toast to pop up, it got stuck, so my father got out a dinner knife and dug it out. Sometime later I was in the kitchen up on the counter next to the toaster with the dinner knife in my hand. I had failed to notice that my father had unplugged the toaster before using the knife...