Adobe FRAMEMAKER 7 Manual page 342

374 LESSON 15
HTML and Web Publishing
2 Open the file Web1.html in your Web browser.
Pioneers in Electricity
he phenomenon that Thales had observed and recorded in antiquity aroused the interest of many
scientists through the ages. They made various practical experiments in their efforts to identify the
elusive force that Thales had likened to a "soul" and which we now know to have been static electricity.
Of all forms of energy, electricity is the most baffling and difficult to describe. An electric current cannot
be seen. In fact it does not exist outside the wires and other conductors that carry it. A live wire carrying
a current looks exactly the same and weighs exactly the same as it does when it is not carrying a current.
An electric current is simply a movement or flow of electrons.
The following sections describe some pioneers in the advancement of our knowledge of electricity.
The Early Scientists
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin, the American statesman and scientist born in Boston in 1706, investigated the nature
of thunder and lightning by flying a child's kite during a thunderstorm. He had attached a metal spike to
the kite, and at the other end of the string to which the kite was tied he secured a key. As the rain soaked
into the string, electricity flowed freely down the string and Franklin was able to draw large sparks from
the key. Of course this could have been very dangerous, but he had foreseen it and supported the
3 Notice the following:
• The entire Web page is one column even though the original document was two
columns in FrameMaker 7.0. (HTML doesn't support multiple text columns, but a
workaround exists. You could have created the FrameMaker 7.0 document by entering
your text in tables. FrameMaker 7.0 converts tables without ruling lines to HTML tables
with invisible borders, thereby simulating multiple columns of text.)
• The top banner graphic, and the drop cap at the start of the first body paragraph
converted with the text. These graphics were originally TIF images. FrameMaker 7.0
converted them to GIF. (The Web doesn't support TIF.) Later you'll see how to convert
graphics to other graphic formats that the Web supports.
• The section heading The Early Scientists no longer has its autonumber (Section 1:).
• The third-level heading Benjamin Franklin is no longer a run-in head.
• At the end of the second paragraph about Thomas Edison, the cross-reference
converted to a link and the page number is gone.
• Near the end of the Web page, the numbered questions and the bulleted list converted
to HTML numbered and bulleted lists.
• The table lost its shading and its rotated cells because HTML table formatting is more
limited than that of FrameMaker 7.0.