Who discovered electricity?

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Who discovered electricity?

Answer 1

The first technical recordings of the concept of electricity were from Benjamin Franklin who at the time knew that objects had certain charges and that they interacted through each other through contact, however at the time he hypothesized that it was a microscopic fluid that moved electrons which of course has been proven wrong. After Franklin, a scientist by the name of Michael Faraday came up with an equation to demonstrate the interactions of electric axioms (this equation is used in Maxwell's laws, four fundamental equations that define electricity). Faraday also built an electric cage that one could go inside without being shocked. One of the most important people in electric ingenuity is Nikola Tesla. This man outwitted Thomas Edison and found a highly efficient way to transmit electricity to houses that is still used today (AC current). He also indirectly invented the radio, fluorescent bulb, and x ray, however did not receive credit for such deeds, he also discovered wireless electricity which to this day we still do not understand that well. All of his genius unfortunately died with him, he predicted the capability of internet before computers even invented. All of these men are brilliant and help revolutionize modern society, including Edison, who gets over credited today.

Answer 2

No one knows,.. as it was not accurately recorded given how far back it was.



I can say it was NOT Ben Franklin. Amazing what us American's learned in school, sigh.



Although it is possible to trace the history of the harnessing of electrical power and identify the people responsible for various breakthroughs along the way, it is difficult to put a name to the person who first discovered electricity. Very early in human history, people would have witnessed lightning, an obvious natural manifestation, but would have been unable to explain it. The known history of electricity goes back to at least 620-550 BCE, when, in ancient Greece, it was found that rubbing fur on amber caused an attraction between the two. This discovery is credited to the philosopher Thales of Miletos. It was to be many centuries before anyone was able to connect this phenomenon with lightning, and a century more before electrical currents were put to practical use.

Early Experiments



By the 17th century, many electricity-related discoveries had been made, such as the invention of an early electrostatic generator, the differentiation between positive and negative charges, and the classification of materials as conductors or insulators. In the year 1600, English physician William Gilbert first made the connection between the attraction of oppositely charged objects and magnetism. He coined the term electric, from the Greek elektron — meaning amber — to identify the force that certain substances exert when rubbed against each other.



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Answer 3

Volta is given credit for the battery, which we call the Voltaic Pile. But he gave credit to:



"In announcing his discovery of his voltaic pile, Volta paid tribute to the influences of William Nicholson, Tiberius Cavallo, and Abraham Bennet.[See source]"



I'm sure these gents of the early 1800s were also aware of electricity in some form.



Of course static electricity was well known by then as some used it as a show of "magic." That is, they knew the effects: sparks and attraction, but they really didn't know the science. Here's a brief history:



As far back as 2000 BC, fishermen were aware of shocks from certain kinds of fish. These were, of course, several varieties of electric eel. [See source.]



"Possibly the earliest and nearest approach to the discovery of the identity of lightning, and electricity from any other source, is to be attributed to the Arabs, who before the 15th century had the Arabic word for lightning (raad) applied to the electric ray.[See source]" NOTE Long before the Ben Franklin experiments.



"Electricity would remain little more than an intellectual curiosity for millennia until 1600, when the English scientist William Gilbert made a careful study of electricity and magnetism, distinguishing the lodestone effect from static electricity produced by rubbing amber.[6] He coined the New Latin word electricus ("of amber" or "like amber", from ήλεκτρον [elektron], the Greek word for "amber") to refer to the property of attracting small objects after being rubbed.[See source]" NOTE the origin of the word electricity.



The late 1800s saw a remarkable advance in understanding and using electricity. Some notables in this era were Nikola Tesla, Galileo Ferraris, Oliver Heaviside, Thomas Edison, Ottó Bláthy, Ányos Jedlik, Sir Charles Parsons, Joseph Swan, George Westinghouse, Ernst Werner von Siemens, Alexander Graham Bell and Lord Kelvin. [See source.]



As you can see, electricity wasn't "discovered" all at once. Little bits of it, some properties, were discovered over a long period of time and by a lot of people.

Answer 4

Appear no extra then "Nicola Testa" who in 1900, discovered and patented a gadget that would transmit electrical power with out wires. Testa's study was once funded by way of J.P. Morgan who was once no philanthropist, he used to be a grasping entrepreneur and once he learned that Tesla's technology was to furnish free electrical vigour to the usa for the nice of humanity, JP Morgan stopped funding the project and destroyed the computer. JP Morgan used to be this international locations biggest investor into the infrastructure to supply electrical power via thousands of miles of wires, ...Morgan stood to make trillions of bucks by promoting hydro electrical vigor to america so he destroyed the status of Tesla and Tesla's free wirelessly transmitted electrical vigor. Nicola Tesla used to be additionally the inventor of AC (alternating current) electrical current that the sector nonetheless makes use of today.

Answer 5

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