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Ben Franklin
By tying a key onto a kite string during a storm, Ben Franklin , proved that static electricity and lightning were the same. -
Luigi Galvani
Luigi Galvani discovered bioelectricity. Showed that nerve cells passing signals to muscles is a form of electricity. -
Alessandro Volta
First electric battery invented by Alessandro Volta. The “volt” is named in his honor. -
Michael Faraday
Generation of energy in a wire, producing an electric current. (Discovered by Michael Faraday.) -
Joseph Henry
Joseph Henry invented the electrical relay, used to send electrical currents long distances. -
Thomas Davenport
Thomas Davenport invented the electric motor, an invention that is used in most electrical appliances today. -
Samuel Morse
Samuel Morse invented the electric telegraph, a machine that could send messages long distances across wire. -
Joseph Swan
Joseph Swan, an Englishman, invented the first incandescent lightbulb. -
Power Plant
Lakeside Power Plant in Wisconsin becomes the world’s first power plant to burn only pulverized coal. -
Nuclear Plant
The first time that power was generated from a commercial nuclear plant, at Santa Susana, California.
