Patch Cords Gloucestershire
Patch Cords Gloucestershire
A brief history of the power cable:
The Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus, around the year 600 A.C., discovered the electrical nature of matter and he noted that if you rubbed amber with skin, it attracted light bodies. These were the first steps toward understanding and harnessing electricity. Later in the Sixteenth Century William Gilbert, showed that there were other materials (that which he called “electric“) that behaved similarly to Amber. William invented the versorio, an instrument that could determine whether or not an object was electric.
Moving further in time to the eighteenth century, a man called Charles du Fay found that there were two types of behaviour depending on what materials were rubbed. His findings were that two pieces of amber that were electrified repelled each other; and so did two pieces of electrified glass. But one of each type are attracted. To him, this was two types of electricity.
Benjamin Franklin, around the same time, investigated this subject and concluded that electricity was a kind of fluid that could pass from one body to another by friction.
It was Alessandro Volta who made a leap in 1780, thanks to the invention of the electric battery. He found that conductive copper or iron are needed when electricity is generated, as these were conductive. Initially, thick copper plates were used, which were gradually over time reduced in size little by little to become the power cord we know today.
In the Mid-Nineteenth Century, there were many people who were interested in the advancement of the technological application of electricity. For example: Alva Edison produced the light bulb amongst other things, and Samuel Morse the telegraph. From this, electricity began to be used in the streets and in homes, replacing candles and oil lamps. What a difference!
In the Twentieth Century, we saw the revolution of electricity and later electronics. The electrical cable became capable of conducting energy produced in power plants, as far as necessary.
One modern example is a Patch cord. What is a patch cord? These are cables that are used to “patch-in” one device to another. It is a cable with two ends made to connect one thing to another, for example linking a device to a power source. Patch cords are used in a wide variety of settings:
Musicians use them to connect effects pedals together and Analogue synthesisers which use patch cords to connect to oscillators and different envelopes.
HDMI cables and RCA cables are patch cords.
Basically, it’s very likely that we all have used patch cords to connect something to something, somewhere, at some point in our life. And that is true in Gloucestershire.
Fusion 2000 are a UK based company that supply engineers with, amongst other things, patch cords. Gloucestershire is where their business is based and they have in stock many of the biggest names in the industry such as AngstromLap, Ripley Tools and ITW chemtronics. They supply tools and equipment to Gloucester as well as the whole of the UK, tools like termination and polishing supplies, installation tools, launch boxes, testing products and as we have already stated, cabling which includes Patch Cords.
