Who invented electricity?

Answer 1

God,

Ben Franklin just learned how to use it

Answer 2

Nobody 'invented' electricity, because it was already in nature as lightening and static electricity. But different people can be credited with 'discovering' different aspects of electricity, and 'inventing' equipment to generate and use it.

Around 600 BC Greeks found that by rubbing amber (a hard fossilised resin) against a fur cloth, it would attract particles of straw. In the 17th century, Dr William Gilbert investigated the reactions of amber and magnets and first recorded the word 'electric' in a report on the theory of magnetism. And in 1752, Benjamin Franklin proved that lightning and the spark from amber were one and the same thing.

In 1792 an Italian scientist, Alessandro Volta, showed that when moisture comes between two different metals, electricity is created. This led him to invent the first electric battery, the voltaic pile, made from thin sheets of copper and zinc separated by moist pasteboard. In this way, a new kind of electricity was discovered, electricity that flowed steadily like a current of water instead of discharging itself in a single spark or shock. Volta showed that electricity could be made to travel from one place to another by wire.

The credit for generating electric current on a practical scale goes to the famous English scientist, Michael Faraday. In 1831, Faraday found that electricity could be produced through magnetism by motion. When a magnet was moved inside a coil of copper wire, a tiny electric current flows through the wire. This was the first electric dynamo or electric generator.

40 years later, a practical DC (Direct Current) generator was built by Thomas Edison in America.

Answer 3

No one created electricity. It is a natural force that has been around since the creation of time, if not before. The first person, on record, to capture electricity was Ben Franklin. The first person, on record, to harness the power of elecricity and put it to good use, was Thomas Alva Edison, the inventor of the light bulb. But as I have stated earlier, no one created electricity, only discovered it's existince.

Answer 4

Thomas Alva Edison discovered electricity

Answer 5

Zeus! The Thunder God

Nikola Tesla

Answer 6

Thomas Edison

Answer 7

no one actually invented electricity it is naturally occurring element, and some very intelligent or just plane lucky people found a way to harness it

Answer 8

nobody invented it.. it's a quality of the electrons, when you give them a strong speed or when you put on the extremity of the thread a difference of potenciality they create a flows of electrons called electricity. it passes in metals or others conductors and the passing of electricity in a thread of bronze produces also heat. bye bye

Answer 9

GOD invented it, Ben Franklin discovered it, Thomas Edison put it to use.

Answer 10

well technically, electricity was around from "the beginning" becase lightning is electricity, and it has been around since the beginning. but benjamin franklin, discovered it, and thomas edison was the 1st to put it to use.

Answer 11

The Creator.