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HISTORY OF ELECTRICITY

ORIGIN OF ELECTRICITY

 Electricity is a form of energy that can only be appreciated by the


effects it produces.  
 Electricity exists in everything: in our body, in the air we breathe, in the
book we read, in objects. etc
Benjamín Franklin (1706−1790) 
Alejandro Volta (1745−1827)

 he builds the first battery capable of producing electric current


Andre−Marie Ampere
(1775−1836)

Ampère's law says that if two materials that have the same sense of
current are attracted. and if they have opposite direction of current repel
Alemán Georg Simon Ohm
(1789−1854)
 Ohm law
Michael Faraday (1791−1867)


His main discovery was electromagnetic induction
Thomas Alva Edison
(1847−1931) 

he produces the first Incandescent Lamp with a carbonized cotton
filament.
Nikola Tesla

 Nikola Tesla's most important inventions are his contributions to


alternating current (AC). his inventions made the CA applicable for
widespread use, helping to electrify the world.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evC1Ltb9g9Q

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