Who Invented Electricity?

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Answer 1

Electricity was not invented by any one person, but its modern day use is the result of the work of inventors, scientists, and researchers, who toiled over the subject for millennia. In order to fully understand electricity in our modern world, we first have to understand the pioneers who dated back to as early as the ancient Greeks, and comtemplate their work to harness the natural power of electricity and turn it into something truly useful to the average person



Electricity is a basic part of nature and it is one of our most widely used forms of energy. We get electricity, which is a secondary energy source, from the conversion of other sources of energy, like coal, natural gas, oil, nuclear power and other natural sources, which are called primary sources.



Actually, nobody invented electricity; it was discovered.



Benjamin Franklin invented an electrical system - a means to channel electricity and make it work for you.



Alessandro Volta invented the first practical battery.

Answer 2

The religious could say "God". Others could say it has been an aspect of the Universe since a moment or two after the big bang.



The Italian Allesandro Volta invented the first electro-chemical cell in the 1700s, so you might say he invented current electricity. Before that, static electricity had been known to the ancient Greeks and it was studied in the 1600s and 1700s by a few people.



EDIT - It was not Franklin. He was just one of a dozen or more people who investigated it in the 1700s. Americans think they invented everything.

Answer 3

The Creator-Almighty,who" invented" the Universe, "invented" electricity.



The history of electricity is as follows----



Thales of Miletus wrote in the 6th century BC that rubbing fur on various substances, such as amber, would cause a particular attraction between the two, which is now known as static electricity.



The Greeks noted that the amber buttons could attract light objects such as hair and that if they rubbed the amber for long enough they could even get a spark to jump.



A number of objects found in Iraq in 1938 dated to the early centuries AD (Sassanid Mesopotamia), called the Baghdad Battery, resembles a galvanic cell and is believed by some to have been used for electroplating, although there is no real consensus and proof on what the purpose of these devices was and if they were indeed electrical in nature, and is therefore speculative in nature.



Italian physician Girolamo Cardano wrote about electricity in De Subtilitate (1550) distinguishing, perhaps for the first time, between electrical and magnetic forces.



In 1600 the English scientist William Gilbert, in De Magnete, expanded on Cardano's work and coined the New Latin word electricus from ἤλεκτρον (elektron), the Greek word for "amber".

The first usage of the word electricity is ascribed to Sir Thomas Browne in his 1646 work, Pseudodoxia Epidemica.



Gilbert was followed in 1660 by Otto von Guericke, who invented an early electrostatic generator.

Other pioneers were Robert Boyle, who in 1675 stated that electric attraction and repulsion can act across a vacuum;



Stephen Gray, who in 1729 classified materials as conductors and insulators; and C. F. du Fay who first identified the two types of electricity that would later be called positive and negative

In 1752, Benjamin Franklin is frequently confused as the key luminary behind electricity. William Watson and Benjamin Frankilin share the discovery of electrical potentials. Benjamin Franklin promoted his investigations of electricity and theories through the famous, though extremely dangerous, experiment of flying a kite through a storm-threatened sky. A key attached to the kite string sparked and charged a Leyden jar, thus establishing the link between lightning and electricity.

Following these experiments he invented a lightning rod. It is either Franklin (more frequently) or Ebenezer Kinnersley of Philadelphia (less frequently) who is considered as the establisher of the convention of positive and negative electricity.

Answer 4

From the writings of Thales of Miletus it appears that Westerners knew as long ago as 600 B.C. that amber becomes charged by rubbing. There was little real progress until the English scientist William Gilbert in 1600 described the electrification of many substances and coined the term electricity from the Greek word for amber. As a result, Gilbert is called the father of modern electricity. In 1660 Otto von Guericke invented a crude machine for producing static electricity. It was a ball of sulfur, rotated by a crank with one hand and rubbed with the other. Successors, such as Francis Hauksbee, made improvements that provided experimenters with a ready source of static electricity. Today's highly developed descendant of these early machines is the Van de Graaf generator, which is sometimes used as a particle accelerator. Robert Boyle realized that attraction and repulsion were mutual and that electric force was transmitted through a vacuum. Stephen Gray distinguished between conductors and nonconductors. C. F. Du Fay recognized two kinds of electricity, which Benjamin Franklin and Ebenezer Kinnersley of Philadelphia later named positive and negative.



Progress quickened after the Leyden jar was invented in 1745 by Pieter van Musschenbroek. The Leyden jar stored static electricity, which could be discharged all at once. In 1747 William Watson discharged a Leyden jar through a circuit, and comprehension of the current and circuit started a new field of experimentation. Henry Cavendish, by measuring the conductivity of materials (he compared the simultaneous shocks he received by discharging Leyden jars through the materials), and Charles A. Coulomb, by expressing mathematically the attraction of electrified bodies, began the quantitative study of electricity.



A new interest in current began with the invention of the battery. Luigi Galvani had noticed (1786) that a discharge of static electricity made a frog's leg jerk. Consequent experimentation produced what was a simple electron cell using the fluids of the leg as an electrolyte and the muscle as a circuit and indicator. Galvani thought the leg supplied electricity, but Alessandro Volta thought otherwise, and he built the voltaic pile, an early type of battery, as proof. Continuous current from batteries smoothed the way for the discovery of G. S. Ohm's law, relating current, voltage (electromotive force), and resistance, and of J. P. Joule's law of electrical heating. Ohm's law and the rules discovered later by G. R. Kirchhoff regarding the sum of the currents and the sum of the voltages in a circuit are the basic means of making circuit calculations.



In 1819 Hans Christian Oersted discovered that a magnetic field surrounds a current-carrying wire. Within two years André Marie Ampère had put several electromagnetic laws into mathematical form, D. F. Arago had invented the electromagnet, and Michael Faraday had devised a crude form of electric motor. Practical application of a motor had to wait 10 years, however, until Faraday (and earlier, independently, Joseph Henry) invented the electric generator with which to power the motor. A year after Faraday's laboratory approximation of the generator, Hippolyte Pixii constructed a hand-driven model. From then on engineers took over from the scientists, and a slow development followed; the first power stations were built 50 years later.



In 1873 James Clerk Maxwell had started a different path of development with equations that described the electromagnetic field, and he predicted the existence of electromagnetic waves traveling with the speed of light. Heinrich R. Hertz confirmed this prediction experimentally, and Marconi first made use of these waves in developing radio (1895). John Ambrose Fleming invented (1904) the diode rectifier vacuum tube as a detector for the Marconi radio. Three years later Lee De Forest made the diode into an amplifier by adding a third electrode, and electronics had begun. Theoretical understanding became more complete in 1897 with the discovery of the electron by J. J. Thomson. In 1910–11 Ernest R. Rutherford and his assistants learned the distribution of charge within the atom. Robert Millikan measured the charge on a single electron by 1913.

Answer 5

Electricity is not invented.., it was discovered...,



it was by those who invented the fire from spark of the stone..., all others those who claim later followed the principles of electricity.....



Electricity is nothing but a study about electrons. every atom has a neutron, proton and electrons..., when two stones were rubbed at a particular speed it created sufficient energy to release the electrons.............

Answer 6

Electricity was not invented by any one person, but its modern day use is the result of the work of inventors, scientists, and researchers, who toiled over the subject for millennia. In order to fully understand electricity in our modern world, we first have to understand the pioneers who dated back to as early as the ancient Greeks, and comtemplate their work to harness the natural power of electricity and turn it into something truly useful to the average person.

Answer 7

The earliest is by God Almighty in the clouds, presented and experienced as thunderbolts, not too silent and silent.



It requires only a single functioning neuron blessed with humility to appreciate and accept the wonders and blessings of Nature. The same electricity is attributed for 'Kalyani's' theory about the origin of life.

Answer 8

The person who first got an electric shock might have recognized it!!!It's Benjamin Franklin...

Answer 9

According to American history, electricity was not invented, but rather discovered by a guy called Benjamin Franklin. He did this by flying a kite with a metal key attached to it during a thunder storm.

Answer 10

Well, no one invented it but it was discovered by Benjamin Franklin

Answer 11

Franklin

Answer 12

Faraday, Michel Faraday

Answer 13

The Persians probably discovered it about 2,000 years ago. Read the link at the source. It describes batteries found in Baghdad and the theories of their use, as well as the ways scientific discoveries evolve.

Answer 14

Ben Franklin son

Answer 15

Benjamin Franklin from philadelphia, PA,

Answer 16

Cap't. John Lectrik.

Answer 17

thomas alva edision invinted the electricity

Answer 18

benjamin franklin

Answer 19

it was discovered by ancient chinese or something, bu i doubt they realized what it was. then it was first noticed (and documented) by ben franklin.