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Thales
A Greek mathmatician discovered that amber rubbed with animal fur attracted light objects. -
Huang-ti
Etheir had a polished piece of lodestone on a piece of wood or put a lodestone in a floating bowl so the bowl would face to the north. -
William Gilbert
Invented a tool called a versorium which is very similar to a compass -
Otto Von Guericke
Built the first electric generator -
Francis Hauksbee
Removed air from a glass bottle, rotated the bottle while rubbing it with a wool cloth and it made light -
Stephen Gray
discoverd conductivity -
Charles Du Fay
came to the conclusion that everything and everyone had electricity -
Pieter Van Musschenbroek
Invented a storage jar called a leyden jar -
Ben Franklin
flew a kite with a key attached in a storm -
Luigi Galvani
Discoverd that dead frog's muscles twitched when it was placed near a electrical machine -
Alessandro Volta
invented the battery -
Andre Ampere
experimented with electromagnetism -
Georg Ohm
discovered the relationship among voltage, current and resistance -
Thomas Alva Edison
invented incandescent light bulbs -
Nikola Tesla
invented an alternating current
