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Some ancient egypcian texts describe the encounter that they had with an electric fish. This is considered as the first sighting of electricity in the human history.
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Thalos of Miletus was a scientific, astronomer, mathematic, philosofer and many other things. So one of his discoberies was the static electricity which he found by rubbing fur on substances such as amber.
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Arabic naturalists and physicians described electric rays and identified them with lightling.
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On 1720 the english scientist Stephen Gray made the distinctions beetween insulating materials and conductors, those which permit the electricity to flow thruough them.
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THe french physicist Charles-Augustin de Coulomb formulated and published the Coulomb's law in his paper Premier Mémoire sur l’Électricité et le Magnétisme
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On 1800 an italian physicist Alessandro Volta invented the battery.
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On 1816 Francis Ronalds built the first working electric telegraph, an invention which provided instant comunication in long distances.
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The german physicist Georg Ohm introduced the concept of electrical resistance.
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The american scientist Joseph Henry developed a prototype DC motor, no more than a year later Hyppolite Pixii from france developed a prototype DC generator.
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The scottish inventor Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone, which was better than the telegraph because it was the voice which he tranformed so everybody could use it.
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In 1877 the first street lightling was installed in paris.
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In 1879Thomas Alva Edison introduced a long lasting filament for the incandescent lamp.
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In 1901 the American engineer Peter Cooper Hewitt invented a Fluorescent lamp.
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Japanese engineer Kenjiro Takayanagi demonstrated CRT television with 40-line resolution, the first working example of a fully electronic television receiver.
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In 1962 Nick Holonyak Jr. invented the LED, light-emitting diode which was an important improvement of actual light research.
