History of electrician (Facility and Mobile Equipment Maintenance)

By sah0253
  • 600 BCE

    Thales of Miletus

    Thales of Miletus
    Thales of Miletus writes about amber becoming charged by rubbing - he was describing what we now call static electricity.

  • Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin
    Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning rod - he demonstrated lightning was electricity.

  • battery

    battery
    First electric battery invented by Alessandro Volta. Volta proved that electricity could travel over wires.

  • First energy

    First energy
    First energy utility in the US founded.

  • electric motor

    electric motor
    First electric motor invented by Michael Faraday.

  • electrical heating

    electrical heating
    The start of J. P. Joule's law of electrical heating.

  • edison's power

    edison's power
    Edison’s power plant was the latest in a flurry of electrical breakthroughs, beginning with the first successful transatlantic telegraph cable

  • The first phone

    The first phone
    The first phone was created because of the telegraph if they wouldn't have figured out the telegraph the phone wouldn't have been created

  • Light company founded

    Light company founded
    Edison Electric Light Co. (US) and American Electric and Illuminating (Canada) founded.

  • commercial power plant

    commercial power plant
    Thomas Edison opened the first commercial power plant in the United States, serving 59 customers in a square mile of Lower Manhattan.

  • Three- wire system

    Three- wire system
    The electric transformer is invented. Thomas Edison introduces the "three-wire" transmission system.

  • Electric system built

    Electric system built
    William Stanley develops transformer and Alternating Current electric system.

  • Electric company formed

    Electric company formed
    General Electric Company formed by the merger of Thomson-Houston and Edison General Electric.

  • transmission line

    transmission line
    Highest voltage transmission line 60 Kilovolt.

  • Lee De Forest

    Lee De Forest
    Lee De Forest invented the electric amplifier.

  • First fridge

    First fridge
    The electric refrigerator is invented. Robert Millikan measured the electric charge on a single electron.

  • The Public Utility Holding Company Act

    The Public Utility Holding Company Act
    The Public Utility Holding Company Act is passed. The Federal Power Act is passed. The Securities and Exchange Commission is established. The Bonneville Power Administration is established.

  • First power marketer

    First power marketer
    Citizens Power, the first power marketer, goes into business.

  • The National Energy Policy Act is passed.

    The National Energy Policy Act is passed.
    The Energy Policy Act is used to reduce the use if petroleum and improve air quality, including alternative fuels, renewable energy, and energy efficiency.

  • Electric Internet

    Electric Internet
    Electricity marketed on the Internet.