Fuse History and Definition

In electronics and electrical engineering, a fuse is an electrical safety device that operates to provide overcurrent protection of an electrical circuit.Electric fuse may be a protecting device that protects electrical instrumentation within the circuit by breaking the circuit once there’s a brief circuit.It contains a fuse wire that has low resistance, it permits traditional current tpass through it safely however if there’s any contact, fuse can blow out i.e fuse wire cant face up to the warmth created by that current(infinite current) thus it melts and breaks the circuit.Thus, protective different electrical devices from contact current.

A variety of wire or foil fusible elements were in use to protect telegraph cables and lighting installations as early as 1864.A fuse was patented by Thomas Edison in 1890 as part of his electric distribution system.