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Stephen Gray discovers the conduction of electricity
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Charles Francois du Fay discovered that electricity is positively and negatively charged.
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Benjamin Franklin discovers that lightning is electricity by flying a kite in a storm, with a key attached to the string
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Luigi Galvani discovered bioelectricity, when a frog's muscle twitched from a spark
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Alessandro Volta creates the first wet cell battery. He proved that electricity can travel across wires.
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Hans Oersted found that electricity and magnetism are related, with the effect of a needle on a compass.
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Michael Faraday invents the first electric motor.
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John Joseph Wright (Canadian) invents an electric streetcar in 1833
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Henry Woodward (Canadian) sells the lightbulb to Thomas Edison, who then evolves the idea by creating a different bulb that lasts longer.
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Alexander Graham Bell and his assistant invents the telephone in Nova Scotia
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Morse Robb (Canadian) patents an electric organ in 1928
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Eli Franklin Burton, Cecil Hall, James HIller, and Albert Prebus (Canadian) co-invented the electron microscope in 1937
