Common phenomena are related to electricity, including lightning, static electricity, electric heating, electric discharges and many others. The presence of either a positive or negative electric charge produces an electric field. A timeline of history of electricity traces key breakthroughs, from ancient observations to modern power systems, highlighting how electricity transformed the world. William Gilbert (England) first coined the term electricity from elektron, the Greek word for amber. Gilbert wrote about the electrification of many substances. He was also the first person to use the terms electric force, magnetic pole, and electric attraction. · History of technology - Electricity, Innovations, Inventions: The development of electricity as a source of power preceded this conjunction with steam power late in the 19th century. Inspired and educated by Gilbert, several Europeans inventors, including Otto von Guericke (1602–1686) of Germany, Charles Francois Du Fay (1698–1739) of France, and Stephen Gray (1666–1736) of England expanded the knowledge. Otto von Guericke was the first to prove that a vacuum could exist. Creating a vacuum was essential for all kinds of further...See full list on thoughtco.comThe Leyden jar was the original capacitor, a device that stores and releases an electrical charge. (At that time electricity was considered the mysterious fluid or force.) The Leyden jar was invented in 1745 nearly simultaneously in Holland by academic Pieter van Musschenbroek (1692–1761) In 1745 and in Germany by German clergyman and scientist, Ew...See full list on thoughtco.comU.S. founding father Ben Franklin's (1705–1790) important discovery was that electricity and lightning were one and the same. Franklin's lightning rod was the first practical application of electricity. atural philosopher Henry Cavendish of England, Coulomb of France, and Luigi Galvaniof Italy made scientific contributions towards finding practical...See full list on thoughtco.comJoseph Henry was a researcher in the field of electricity whose work inspired many inventors. Henry's first discovery was that the power of a magnet could be immensely strengthened by winding it with insulated wire. He was the first person to make a magnet that could lift 3,500 pounds of weight. Henry showed the difference between "quantity" magnet...See full list on thoughtco.comMichael Faraday, William Sturgeon (1783–1850), and other inventors were quick to recognize the value of Henry's discoveries. Sturgeon magnanimously said, "Professor Joseph Henry has been enabled to produce a magnetic force which totally eclipses every other in the whole annals of magnetism, and no parallel is to be found since the miraculous suspen...See full list on thoughtco.comThe telegraph was an early invention that communicated messages at a distance over a wire using electricity that was later replaced by the telephone. The word telegraphy comes from the Greek words tele which means far away and grapho which means write. The first attempts to send signals by electricity (telegraph) had been made many times before Hen...See full list on thoughtco.comHowever, Henry strung a mile of fine wire, placed an "intensity" battery at one end, and made the armature strike a bell at the other. In this experiment, Joseph Henry discovered the essential mechanics behind the electric telegraph. This discovery was made in 1831, a full year before Samuel Morse (1791–1872) invented the telegraph. There is no con...See full list on thoughtco.comHenry next turned to designing a magnetic engine and succeeded in making a reciprocating bar motor, on which he installed the first automatic pole changer, or commutator, ever used with an electric battery. He did not succeed in producing direct rotary motion. His bar oscillated like the walking beam of a steamboat.See full list on thoughtco.comThomas Davenport(1802–1851), a blacksmith from Brandon, Vermont, built a road-worthy electric car in 1835. Twelve years later U.S. electrical engineer Moses Farmer (1820–1893) exhibited an electric-driven locomotive. In 1851, Massachusetts inventor Charles Grafton Page (1712–1868) drove an electric car on the tracks of the Baltimore and Ohio Railro...See full list on thoughtco.comThe principle behind the dynamo or electric generator was discovered by Michael Faraday and Joseph Henry but the process of its development into a practical power generator consumed many years. Without a dynamo for the generation of power, the development of the electric motor was at a standstill, and electricity could not be widely used for transp...See full list on thoughtco.comDec 26, 2025 · Discover the history of electricity, from ancient sparks to smart homes. Learn who inventedelectricity, when it began, and how it powers our lives today. · A: Electricity wasn’t invented—it’s a natural phenomenon. Ancient Greeks discovered static electricity around 600 BCE, but practical electrical applications developed over centuries through many inventors’ contributions. · Discover the history of electricity, from ancient sparks to smart homes. Learn who inventedelectricity, when it began, and how it powers our lives today. · A: Electricity wasn’t invented—it’s a natural phenomenon. 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