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600 BCE
THALES OF MILETUS
Thales of Miletus described static electricity by rubbing fur on substances such as amber -
WILLIAM GILBERT
English scientist William Gilbert coined the word electricus after careful experiments. -
FRANCIS HAUKSBEE
English scientist Francis Hauksbee made a glass ball that glowed when spun and rubbed with the hand -
STEPHEN GRAY
English scientist Stephen Gray made the distinction between insulators and conductors -
LEYDEN JARS
German physicist Ewald Georg von Kleist and Dutch scientist Pieter van Musschenbroek invented Leyden jars -
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
American scientist Benjamin Franklin showed that lightning was electrical by flying a kite, and explained how Leyden jars work -
GALVANIC ACTION
Italian scientist Luigi Galvani discovered the Galvanic action in living tissue -
PIERRE-SIMON LAPLACE
French mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace developed the Laplace transform to transform a linear differential equation to an algebraic equation. -
BATTERY INVENTION
Italian physicist Alessandro Volta invented the battery -
ATOMIC THEORY
Atomic theory, a scientific theory of the nature of matter, which states that matter is composed of discrete units called atoms. by John Dalton -
ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH
English inventor Francis Ronalds built the first working electric telegraph -
MAGNETIC FIELD
Danish physicist Hans Christian Ørsted accidentally discovered that an electric field creates a magnetic field -
AMPERE'S LAW
French physicist André-Marie Ampère published his law, that relates the integrated magnetic field around a closed loop to the electric current passing through the loop. -
THERMOELECTRICITY
German scientist Thomas Johann Seebeck discovered thermoelectricity -
ELECTROMAGNET
English physicist William Sturgeon developed the first electromagnet -
GEORG OHM
German physicist Georg Ohm introduced the concept of electrical resistance -
LAW OF INDUCTION
English physicist Michael Faraday published the law of induction (Joseph Henry developed the same law independently) -
ELECTROLYSIS AND THERMISTOR
Michael Faraday developed laws of electrolysis and invented the thermistor -
KIRCHHOFF'S CIRCUIT LAWS
German physicist Gustav Kirchhoff developed two laws now known as Kirchhoff's Circuit laws -
MICROPHONE
German scientist Johann Philipp Reis invented Microphone
