History of Electicity By facebooker_2337983072929253 600 BCE Thales of Miletus discovered static electricity by rubbing fur on amber https://www.iep.utm.edu/thales/ 1600 English scientist William Gilbert coined word "electricus" after his experiments https://www.magcraft.com/william-gilbert 1720 English scientist Stephen Gray made distinction between insulators and conductors http://www.sparkmuseum.com/BOOK_GRAY.HTM 1745 German physicist Kleist and Dutch scientist Musschenbroek invented Leyden jars https://ethw.org/Leyden_jar 1752 Benjamin Franklin kite experiment with a string, a key, and a Leydon jar http://www.ushistory.org/franklin/info/index.htm 1785 French physicist Chalres-Augustin de Coulomb formulated and published Coulomb's Law https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Augustin-de-Coulomb 1800 Italian physicist Alessandro Volta invented the battery https://www.famousscientists.org/alessandro-volta/ 1820 Hans Christian Orsted discovered electric fields create a magnetic field and Andre-Marie Ampere published right-hand rule https://www.famousscientists.org/hans-christian-oersted/ 1821 Thomas Johann Seebeck discovered thermoelectricity https://www.britannica.com/science/thermoelectricity 1827 Georg Ohm introduced electrical resistance https://www.britannica.com/biography/Georg-Ohm 1831 Michael Faraday published law of induction https://www.livescience.com/53509-faradays-law-induction.html 1836 Nicholas Callan invented transformer and induction coil in Ireland http://famousirishscientists.weebly.com/rev-nicholas-callan.html 1862 James Clerk Maxwell published the four Maxwell equations https://www.britannica.com/biography/James-Clerk-Maxwell 1876 Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone https://www.history.com/topics/inventions/alexander-graham-bell 1878 First hydroelectric plant in England and William Crookes invented a prototype of Vacuum tubes http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/gilded/jb_gilded_hydro_1.html 1880 Pierre Curie and Jacques Curie discover piezoelectricity https://piezo.com/pages/history-of-piezoelectricity 1890 Thomas Edison invents the fuse https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/thomas-edison.html 1911 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovered Superconductivity http://www.superconductors.org/History.htm 1912 Edwin Armstrong developed Electronic Oscillator https://www.britannica.com/biography/Edwin-H-Armstrong 1915 Invention of Sonar http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/explorations/bats/libraryarticle.asp?ItemID=234&SubjectID=110&categoryID=3 1928 First television broadcast in the US https://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/edn-moments/4376579/1st-American-TV-station-begins-broadcasting--July-2--1928 1931 First wind energy plant in Soviet Union https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2008/oct/17/wind-power-renewable-energy 1939 Edwin Armstrong developed FM radio reciever https://www.britannica.com/biography/Edwin-H-Armstrong 1941 German engineer Konrad Zuse developed first programmable computer in Berlin https://www.computerhistory.org/fellowawards/hall/konrad-zuse/ 1947 Invention of Transistor http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/transist.htm 1958 Integrated Circuit invented by Jack Kilby http://www.ti.com/corp/docs/kilbyctr/jackbuilt.shtml 1990 Invention of Bluetooth by Ericsson, a Swedish telecommunications company https://www.thoughtco.com/who-invented-bluetooth-4038864