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Thalas found when amber was rubbed with silk it attracted feathers.
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He was the first person to describe the earth's magnetic field and realize that there is relationship between magnetism and electricity.
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Investigated the luminosity of mercury which when placed in glass of generator, evacuated the air from it which created a vacuum. When the ball was rubbed to build up a charge, a glow was visible.
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Ewald Georg von Kleist and Pieter van Musschenbroek invented Leyden jars which store a high-voltage electric charge between electrical conductors on the inside and outside of a glass jar.
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Benjamin Franklin, flew a kite with a metal tip into a thunderstorm to prove that lightning is a form of electricity.
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The Wimshurst machine was used to produce static electricity by two parallel plates being rotated in opposite directions producing a charge around the edges of the plates.
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Volta created a simple battery using pure silver and zinc discs which were squeezed between muslin damped in a salt solution.
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Francis Ronalds built a working telegraph which uses coded electrical signals to communicate information through electrical wiring.
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Hans Christian Oersted of Denmark found that when electricity flows through a wire, it produces a magnetic field that affects the needle of a nearby compass.
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He discovered that when a magnet is moved inside a coil of copper wire, an electric current flows through the wire. This led to the invention of electric motors.
