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Otto von Guericke invented a machine that produced static electricity.
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Robert Boyle observed electric forces of attraction and repulsion transmitted through vacuum.
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In 1733 Charles Francois du Fay found that electricity comes in two forms.
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Peter van Musschenbroek invented the Leyden jar which stored static electricity and could be discharged at once.
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William Watson showed how a Leyden jar could be discharged through a circuit.
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Henry Cavendish started mesuring the condutivity of various materials and publishing his results.
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Benjamin Franklin promoted his theory that lightning was electrical, through his experiment of flying a kite during lightning.
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Luigi Galvani established what we now recognize as the electrical basis of nerve impulses by sending electrical shocks to a frog.
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Gaston Plante invented ther lead-acid battery: the first ever rechargable battery.
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Thomas Edison invented the light bulb
