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Re:Why is electricity so hard to understand? (1989) by awhitby on Saturday March 06, 2021 @08:49AM (#26367311)
Also "high tension power lines," which being heavy catenaries presumably are in high mechanical tension, but must surely have gotten that name from the voltage = tension thing.

German has this too: voltage = Spannung = tension.

This must go right back to the earliest writings on voltage as a concept.

Re:Why is electricity so hard to understand? (1989) by natmaka on Saturday March 06, 2021 @11:57AM (#26368709)
French also has "tension" in this very sense.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tension_%C3%A9lectrique