Ben franklin

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

By BryceThwaits

  • Otto von Guericke

    Otto von Guericke invented a machine that produced static electricity.
  • Lightning Rod

    Lightning Rod

    Benjamin Franklin invented the lightening rod he demonstrated lightning was electricity.
  • first electric battery

    first electric battery

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

    first electric motor

    First electric motor invented by Michael Faraday.

  • breakthrough discovery

    Ohm defined the relationship between power, voltage, current and resistance called Ohms Law.
  • first fuel cell

    first fuel cell

    First fuel cell invented by Sir William Robert Grove.

  • first lightbulb

    Thomas Edison invented an incandescent light bulb that could be used for about 40 hours without burning out

  • improvment on bulbs

    Thomas edisons bulbs could be used for 1200 hours.
  • steam turbine is invented

    steam turbine is invented

    Steam turbine invented by Charles Parsons.
  • first vaccum and washer

    first vaccum and washer

    1908 Electric vacuum cleaner
    Electric washing machine
  • first air conditioning

    first air conditioning

    1911 Electric air conditioning

  • TVA established

    Tennessee Valley Authority established.

  • electricity for customers

    Shippingport Reactor in Pennsylvania was the first nuclear power plant to provide electricity to customers in the U.S.