1.1. The experiment to prove the identity of lightning and electricity was dangerous expedient of flying a kite in a thunderstorm.
1.2. He created the distinction between insulators and conductors.
1.3. He invented a battery for storing electrical charges.
1.4. He coined new English words for the new science of electricity—conductor, charge, discharge, condense, armature, electrify, and others.
1.5. Law of Conservation of Charge - electricity was a single “fluid” with positive and negative or plus and minus charges and not, as traditionally thought, two kinds of fluids. And he demonstrated that the plus and minus charges, or states of electrification of bodies, had to occur in exactly equal amounts.
2. 1700s - people that has unlock the mysteries of electricity.
3. Stephen Gray
3.1. First to systematically experiment with electrical conduction.
3.2. First made the distinction between conduction and insulation
3.3. Discovered the action-at-a-distance phenomenon of electrostatic induction.
4. Alessandro Volta
4.1. Pioneer of electricity and power
4.2. Voltaic Pile - an electric battery that could continuously provide electric current to a circuit.
4.3. Proved that electricity could be generated chemically and debunked the prevalent theory that electricity was generated solely by living beings.
5. Joseph Swan
5.1. Developer of a successful Incandescent Light Bulb.
5.2. Incandescent Light Bulb - is an electric light with a wire filament heated to such a high temperature that it glows with visible light (incandescence).
6. Electricity - is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and motion of matter that has a property of electric charge.
7. Francis Hauksbee
7.1. Known for his work on electricity and electrostatic repulsion.
7.2. Electrostatic Generator - a machine that produces electricity at high voltage and low continious current.
8. Peiter Van Musschenbroek
8.1. Credited with the invention of the first capacitor
8.2. Capacitor - is a passive two-terminal electronic component that stores electrical energy in an electric field.
9. Henry Cavendish
9.1. Torpedo Fish - this is a group of sea creature called electric rays and is where investigations of the electric shock occur.
10. Humphry Davy
10.1. Demonstrated the first Carbon-arc Light before the members of the Royal Institution.
10.2. Carbon-arc Light - a lamp that produces light by an electric arc.
11. Luigi Galvani
11.1. Pioneer of Bioelectromagnetics
11.2. Discovered Animal Electricity
11.3. This was one of the first forays into the study of bioelectricity.
11.4. Bioelectricity - a field that still studies the electrical patterns and signals from tissues such as the nerves and muscles.
11.5. Discovered that the muscles of dead frogs' legs twitched when struck by an electrical spark.
