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600 BCE
Thales of Miletus discovered static electricity by rubbing fur on amber
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English scientist William Gilbert coined word "electricus" after his experiments
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English scientist Stephen Gray made distinction between insulators and conductors
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German physicist Kleist and Dutch scientist Musschenbroek invented Leyden jars
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Benjamin Franklin kite experiment with a string, a key, and a Leydon jar
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French physicist Chalres-Augustin de Coulomb formulated and published Coulomb's Law
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Italian physicist Alessandro Volta invented the battery
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Hans Christian Orsted discovered electric fields create a magnetic field and Andre-Marie Ampere published right-hand rule
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Thomas Johann Seebeck discovered thermoelectricity
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Georg Ohm introduced electrical resistance
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Michael Faraday published law of induction
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Nicholas Callan invented transformer and induction coil in Ireland
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James Clerk Maxwell published the four Maxwell equations
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Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone
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First hydroelectric plant in England and William Crookes invented a prototype of Vacuum tubes
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Pierre Curie and Jacques Curie discover piezoelectricity
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Thomas Edison invents the fuse
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Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovered Superconductivity
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Edwin Armstrong developed Electronic Oscillator
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First television broadcast in the US
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First wind energy plant in Soviet Union
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Edwin Armstrong developed FM radio reciever
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German engineer Konrad Zuse developed first programmable computer in Berlin
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Invention of Transistor
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Integrated Circuit invented by Jack Kilby
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Invention of Bluetooth by Ericsson, a Swedish telecommunications company