5.8 Energy Timeline

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  • Ben Franklin

    Ben Franklin

    Nature of Electricity discovered
  • Alessandro Volta

    Alessandro Volta

    Ist Electric Battery invented by Alessandro Volta
  • Humphry Davy

    Humphry Davy

    invented first "Arc Lamp"
  • Michael Faraday

    Michael Faraday

    1st electric motor
  • Georg Ohm

    Georg Ohm

    defined relationship between poweer voltage, current, and resistance in "Ohms Law"
  • Joseph Henry

    Joseph Henry

    invented the electrical relay to send electric currents long distances
  • Charles Brush

    Charles Brush

    invented "open coil" generator that could produce a steady current of electricity
  • Thomas Edison

    Thomas Edison

    invented the incandascentlight bulb
  • E.W.V. Siemens

    E.W.V. Siemens

    the electic streetcar invented by E.M.V. Siemens

  • Westinghouse Electric Co. lights the Chicago World's Fair

  • Construction of Boulder Dam begins