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Thales of Miletus described static electricity by rubbing fur on substances such as amber
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English scientist William Gilbert coined the word electricus after careful experiments.
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English scientist Francis Hauksbee made a glass ball that glowed when spun and rubbed with the hand
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English scientist Stephen Gray made the distinction between insulators and conductors
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German physicist Ewald Georg von Kleist and Dutch scientist Pieter van Musschenbroek invented Leyden jars
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American scientist Benjamin Franklin showed that lightning was electrical by flying a kite, and explained how Leyden jars work
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Italian scientist Luigi Galvani discovered the Galvanic action in living tissue
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French mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace developed the Laplace transform to transform a linear differential equation to an algebraic equation.
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Italian physicist Alessandro Volta invented the battery
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Atomic theory, a scientific theory of the nature of matter, which states that matter is composed of discrete units called atoms. by John Dalton
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English inventor Francis Ronalds built the first working electric telegraph
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Danish physicist Hans Christian Ørsted accidentally discovered that an electric field creates a magnetic field
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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.
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German scientist Thomas Johann Seebeck discovered thermoelectricity
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English physicist William Sturgeon developed the first electromagnet
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German physicist Georg Ohm introduced the concept of electrical resistance
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English physicist Michael Faraday published the law of induction (Joseph Henry developed the same law independently)
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Michael Faraday developed laws of electrolysis and invented the thermistor
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German physicist Gustav Kirchhoff developed two laws now known as Kirchhoff's Circuit laws
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German scientist Johann Philipp Reis invented Microphone
