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2750 BCE
First human contact with electricity
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. -
600 BCE
Thales of Miletus dicovered static electricity
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. -
1300
Arabic naturalisits found lightling
Arabic naturalists and physicians described electric rays and identified them with lightling. -
Conductors and Insulators
On 1720 the english scientist Stephen Gray made the distinctions beetween insulating materials and conductors, those which permit the electricity to flow thruough them. -
Coulomb
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 -
First battery
On 1800 an italian physicist Alessandro Volta invented the battery. -
The first electric telegraph
On 1816 Francis Ronalds built the first working electric telegraph, an invention which provided instant comunication in long distances. -
Electrical resistance
The german physicist Georg Ohm introduced the concept of electrical resistance. -
DC motor and generator
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. -
The telephone
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. -
Street lightling
In 1877 the first street lightling was installed in paris. -
New type of incasdescent lamp
In 1879Thomas Alva Edison introduced a long lasting filament for the incandescent lamp. -
The fluorescent lamp
In 1901 the American engineer Peter Cooper Hewitt invented a Fluorescent lamp. -
Television
Japanese engineer Kenjiro Takayanagi demonstrated CRT television with 40-line resolution, the first working example of a fully electronic television receiver. -
LED lights
In 1962 Nick Holonyak Jr. invented the LED, light-emitting diode which was an important improvement of actual light research.