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2750 BCE
First time elecricity was mentioned
Ancient Egyptian texts described electric fish and identified them with thunder -
600 BCE
static electric
Thales of Miletus described static electricity by rubbing fur on substances such as amber -
1300
Lightings
Arabic naturalists and physicians described electric rays and identified them with lightning -
Insulators and conductors
English scientist Stephen Gray made the distinction between insulators and conductors -
Coloumb's laws
French physicist Charles-Augustin de Coulomb formulated and published Coulomb's law in his paper Premier Mémoire sur l’Électricité et le Magnétisme -
Laplace transform
French mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace developed the Laplace transform to transform a linear differential equation to an algebraic equation. Later, his transform became a tool in circuit analysis. -
Battery
Italian physicist Alessandro Volta invented the battery -
Ohm's laws
German physicist Georg Ohm introduced the concept of electrical resistance -
Electrical Resistance
German physicist Georg Ohm introduced the concept of electrical resistance -
Magnetic field
Danish physicist Hans Christian Ørsted accidentally discovered that an electric field creates a magnetic field -
Electromagnet
English physicist William Sturgeon developed the first electromagnet -
Laws of electrolosys
Michael Faraday developed laws of electrolysis -
Photovoltaic effect
French scientist Edmond Becquerel discovered the Photovoltaic Effect -
Kirchoff's Circuits laws
German physicist Gustav Kirchhoff developed two laws now known as Kirchhoff's Circuit laws -
Light House
First electrically powered light house in England -
Electric light bulb
Thomas Edison patented the electric light bulb and our world has been brighter ever since -
Radio waves
Russian physicist Alexander Stepanovich Popov finds a use for radio waves, building a radio receiver that can detect lightning strikes -
Video camera tube
German Physicist Max Dieckmann invented Video camera tube -
Wind energy
First wind energy plant in the Soviet Union -
Laser
American engineer Theodore Harold Maiman developed a LASER
