Construct one or more electrostatic devices and explain how they work according to the particle model of electricity. 

Include: pieplate electrophorus

Demonstrate and explain the like nature of electrostatics and current electricity

Include: discharge an electrophorus through a neon bulb

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How did the convention that electric current flows from positive to negative get established?

In the 18^th century a number of people made investigations of static electricity. Charles Dufay distinguished between vitreous electricity (the sort created when glass or rock crystal was rubbed) and resinous electricity (the sort created when resin or a wax rod was rubbed). Dufay proposed a two-fluid theory of electricity, the two fluids corresponding to the two types of electricity. Benjamin Franklin proposed a one-fluid theory, hypothesizing that that the two apparent types of electricity were, in fact, occurrences of excesses and deficiencies of a single electrical fluid. Franklin introduced the terminology 'positive' and 'negative' to denote, respectively, an excess of electrical fluid and a deficiency of electrical fluid. It was on the basis of certain charging and discharging phenomena that Franklin assigned the designations 'positive' and 'negative', and in the 19^th century the terminals of electric batteries were labeled 'plus' and 'minus'. Early in the 20^th century it became clear that in most instances of the transfer of electric charge, it is electrons (negative charge carriers) that move, but by then the labeling conventions were firmly established.