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Benjamin Franklin
Ben Franklin started working with electricity in the 1740's. He believed that lightning was a flow of electricity taking place in nature. He performed his famous kite experiment in 1752 which proved that electricity and lightning was the same thing. This experiment led to his discovery of positive and negative electricity, and to his development of terms we still use today: battery, conductor, condenser, charge, discharge, electric shock, and electrician. -
Michael Faraday
The credit for generating electric current on a practical scale goes to the famous English scientist, Michael Faraday. Faraday was greatly interested in the invention of the electromagnet, but his brilliant mind took earlier experiments still further. If electricity could produce magnetism, why couldn't magnetism produce electricity? In 1831, Faraday found the solution. Electricity could be produced through magnetism by motion.When a magnet was moved in wire, a electric current flows in the wire -
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison is another important name in the history of electricity. In the late 1800's he developed 1,093 inventions, but his most famous is the incandescent light bulb. He wanted to bring light into homes and factories. Up until then people used candles or whale oil lamps for light. -
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein wrote four fundamental papers, all in a few months. Einstein wrote a paper with a new understanding of the structure of light. He argued that light can act as though it consists of discrete, independent particles of energy, in some ways like the particles of a gas. Einstein showed that light quanta, as he called the particles of energy, could help to explain phenomena being studied by experimental physicists. -
Max Ernst
Max Ernst was an artist his father liked painting but he didn't start liking it until he went to Bonn University. he started painting in 1910. Later he had to go help in world war one. He didn't like it there since it interrupted his painting. Then he met some dadaists and made some surrealist art. He married Peggy Guggenheim but their relationship did not last long. Then he moved back to France in 1953 where he lived until his death in 1976. -
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