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Stephen Gray
Stephen Gray discovers the conduction of electricity -
Charles Francois du Fay
Charles Francois du Fay discovered that electricity is positively and negatively charged. -
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin discovers that lightning is electricity by flying a kite in a storm, with a key attached to the string -
Luigi Galvani
Luigi Galvani discovered bioelectricity, when a frog's muscle twitched from a spark -
Alessandro Volta
Alessandro Volta creates the first wet cell battery. He proved that electricity can travel across wires. -
Hans Oersted
Hans Oersted found that electricity and magnetism are related, with the effect of a needle on a compass. -
Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday invents the first electric motor. -
John Joseph Wright
John Joseph Wright (Canadian) invents an electric streetcar in 1833 -
Henry Woodward
Henry Woodward (Canadian) sells the lightbulb to Thomas Edison, who then evolves the idea by creating a different bulb that lasts longer. -
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell and his assistant invents the telephone in Nova Scotia -
Morse Robb
Morse Robb (Canadian) patents an electric organ in 1928 -
Electron Microscope
Eli Franklin Burton, Cecil Hall, James HIller, and Albert Prebus (Canadian) co-invented the electron microscope in 1937
