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Ancient Egyptian texts described electric fish and identified them with thunder
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Thales of Miletus described static electricity by rubbing fur on substances such as amber
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Arabic naturalists and physicians described electric rays and identified them with lightning
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English scientist Stephen Gray made the distinction between insulators and conductors
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French physicist Charles-Augustin de Coulomb formulated and published Coulomb's law in his paper Premier Mémoire sur l’Électricité et le Magnétisme
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French mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace developed the Laplace transform to transform a linear differential equation to an algebraic equation. Later, his transform became a tool in circuit analysis.
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Italian physicist Alessandro Volta invented the battery
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German physicist Georg Ohm introduced the concept of electrical resistance
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German physicist Georg Ohm introduced the concept of electrical resistance
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Danish physicist Hans Christian Ørsted accidentally discovered that an electric field creates a magnetic field
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English physicist William Sturgeon developed the first electromagnet
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Michael Faraday developed laws of electrolysis
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French scientist Edmond Becquerel discovered the Photovoltaic Effect
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German physicist Gustav Kirchhoff developed two laws now known as Kirchhoff's Circuit laws
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First electrically powered light house in England
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Thomas Edison patented the electric light bulb and our world has been brighter ever since
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Russian physicist Alexander Stepanovich Popov finds a use for radio waves, building a radio receiver that can detect lightning strikes
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German Physicist Max Dieckmann invented Video camera tube
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First wind energy plant in the Soviet Union
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American engineer Theodore Harold Maiman developed a LASER