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THALES OF MILETUS 600 BC
•In 600 BC Thales of Miletus discovered that when he rubbed amber with a piece of wool or fur, the amber attracted straw and feathers.

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WILLIAM GILBERT 1600
•Gilbert studied the properties of magnets and discovered the laws of attraction and repulsion between amber and magnets.
•He was the first person to use the word 'electric'.
•He discovered that the Earth is a giant magnet.

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OTTO VON GUERICKE 1663
•Guericke invented the first electric generator which produced static electricity.
•The machine had a globe and when he rubbed it, it produced an electric spark.

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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN 1752
•Franklin proved that lightning is a form of electricity.
•He tied an iron rod to the silk string of a kite. At the end of the string he put a key. During a thunderstorm, lightning travelled down the string and charged the key.

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ALESSANDRO VOLTA 1790
•He built the first battery.
•This poducedthe first continuous flow of electricity.
•The invention of the battery encouraged other scientists to investigate practical uses for electricity.

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HANS CHRISTIAN OERSTED 1819
•Oersted discovered electromagntism.
•He observed that the needleof a cmpass moved when it was near a elecric current.

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MICHAEL FARADAY 1831
•He built the first electric motor.
•He discovered moving magnet inside a coil of copper wire produced a small electric current through the wire.

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THOMAS ALVA EDISON 1879
•Edison and Joseph Swan developed the first incandescent light bulb.

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NIKOLA TESLA 1888
•He introduced the alternanting-current generator.
•It produced the first long distance distribution of electricity.
•We still use the system Tesla developed today.