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Jan 1, 600
Thales
Rubbed Amber With A Piece Of Fur & Discovered That The Amber Could Pick Up Light Objects. -
Jan 1, 1500
William Gilbert
Discovered That Diamonds, Sapphires, sulfur, Resin And Many More Substances Attract Objects Also. -
Jan 1, 1550
Girolamo Cardan
Discovered That Amber Attracts Small Objects Because It Contains Fatty Fluid. -
Otto Von Guericke
Invented The First Machine That Produced Electricity In Large Amounts. -
Ben Franklin
Discovered That Electricity Consists Of Fluid Made Up Of Positive & Negative Charges -
Ben Franklin
Performed His Famous Kite Experiment To Prove That Lightning Was Electrical. -
Ben Franklin
Died At The Age Of 84. -
Alessandro Volta
Reasoned That There Must Be Salt Water In Frog, And When The Metal Touched It, It Produced Electricity. This Led Him To The Invention Of The First Battery. -
Georg Simon Ohm
Ohm's Law Is That 1 Ohm Of Resistance Makes A Potential Difference Of 1 Volt Produce A Current Of 1 Ampere -
Thomas Edison
Invented The Phonograph. -
Thomas Edison
Invented The First Light Bulb. -
Thomas Edison
Passed An Electric Current THrough A Carbon Filament So That It Glowed. -
Nikola Telsa
Invented A System That Transmitted Alternating Current (AC) -
Nikola Tesla
Invented The Induction Motor -
Thomas Edison
Lived From 1847-1931
