History of Electricity

WHO INVENTED ELECTRICITY?

It will not be wrong to describe electricity as being widely-used.

The application of electricity has grown to the point where most of us lead “electrified lives” surrounded by a variety of that use electric energy.

Who invented electricity? A chain of inventions of electricity led to the modern-day use of electric power. Lightning is the purest and most basic form of electricity. It required great effort to bring this energy in everyday use. Here we give you some of the most famous names in the history of the discovery of electricity.

Benjamin Franklin discovered electricity through his well-known experiment of flying a kite during a thunderstorm. On June 15, 1752 Benjamin Franklin tried to prove his theory that lightning was electrical, through his experiment of flying a kite during a thunderstorm.

Michael Faraday discovered that moving a magnet inside a wire coil could make electricity. He was able to build the first electric motor. He later built a generator and a transformer. This has become his great contribution to the field of electromagnetism.

Volta discovered that chemical reactions could be used to create cathodes and anodes. The difference of electric potentials between them could lead to the flow of a current between them.

Thomas Edison’s invention of the electric light bulb (lamp) was a unique invention. It led to the creation of an electric power system.

So, we see that the history of electricity runs from the period before Christ up to the computer age today.