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Thales discovered Static electricity by rubbing animal fur on amber.[12]
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He explained how Leyden Jars worked and how lightning was electrical by his flying kite experiment.[1]
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Alessandro Volta invented the battery[3]
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Hans Christian Ørsted discovered that the electric field caused the magnetic field to deflect needles.[4]
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André-Marie Ampère published his theories on electricity and magnetism along with the right-hand screw rule.[4]
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George Ohm introduced electrical resistance and its relationship with respect to current and voltage. [6]
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Michael Faraday was the first to publish rotatory motion by the interaction of an electric current and a magnetic field. [7]
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Thomas Edison made the first public demonstration of his incandescent light bulb in Menlo Park. [10]
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Nikola Tesla developed an alternating current motor and a system of AC power generation.[11]
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Thomas Edison spread fake stories about Tesla's alternating current(AC) being unsafe. But, at Chicago's World Fair in 1893, AC was used to power 100,000 electric lights and became the established power supply in America. [2]
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Nikola Tesla's hydroelectric power generators at Niagara Falls came into operation supplying electricity to New York City. [8]
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Radios, vacuum cleaners, irons, and fridges were becoming part of every household [9]
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[1] https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/franklin-flies-kite-during-thunderstorm
[2] https://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/ll_warcur.html
[3] https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200603/history.cfm
[4] http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01437c.htm
[5] http://physics.kenyon.edu/EarlyApparatus/Electricity/Electromagnet/Electromagnet.html
[6] https://ethw.org/Ohm%27s_Law
[7] https://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/edn-moments/4394972/Faraday-discovers-electromagnetic-induction--August -
