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William Gilbert was the first men to draw a clear distinction between magnetism and static electricity.
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Thales of Miletus discovered static electricity by rubbing fur on substances such as amber.
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English scientist Francis Hauksbee made a glass ball that glowed when spun and rubbed with the hand.
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English scientist Stephen Gray discovered insulators and conductors.
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American scientist Benjamin Franklin showed that lightning was electrical by flying a kite, and explained how Leyden jars work.
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French mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace developed the Laplace transform to transform a linear differential equation to an algebraic equation. Later, his transform became a tool in circuit analysis.
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Italian physicist Alessandro Volta invented the battery
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Italian physicist Alessandro Volta invented the battery.
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English inventor Francis Ronalds built the first working electric telegraph
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Danish physicist Hans Christian Ørsted accidentally discovered that an electric field creates a magnetic field
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Ørsted's discovery in that a magnetic field existed around all sides of a wire carrying an electric current indicated that there was a direct relationship between electricity and magnetism.
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French scientist Edmond Becquerel discovered the Photovoltaic Effect.
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Belgian engineer Charles Bourseul proposed telephony.
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First electrically powered light house in England
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American inventor Thomas Alva Edison invented phonograph
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The first electronic technology was invented,which was a radio tube,the diode.
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First wind energy plant in the Soviet Union.
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First fully transistorized computer in the US.
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American engineer Jack Kilby invented the integrated circuit (IC).
