Copper wire

Copper wires.

Copper wiring has been used as an electrical conductor since the invention of the electromagnet and the telegraph, and even further since the invention of the telephone.

Uses

It has been used for power generation, power transmission, power distribution, telecommunications, electronics circuitry, and multiple types of electrical equipment; copper and its alloys have also been used to make electrical contacts.

Dependencies

• Copper
  • Copper wire
    • Electricity
  • Scrap copper

See also

• Copper
• Copper Ore
• Copper smelting
• Electricity

References

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Copper_conductor, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (view authors).