2006-10-25 11:21:36 · 4 answers · asked by OHIO STATE IS THAT DEAL!!!!!!!!! 3 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Other - Electronics
Electricity was never invented. Electrical current is a natural phenomena observed in lighting and static electricity.
Though Benjamin Franklin's famous "invention" of electricity by flying a kite in a thunderstorm turned out to be more fiction than fact, his theories on the relationship between lightning and static electricity sparked the interest of later scientists whose work provided the basis for modern electrical technology. Most notably these include Luigi Galvani (1737–1798), Alessandro Volta (1745-1827), Michael Faraday (1791–1867), André-Marie Ampère (1775–1836), and Georg Simon Ohm (1789-1854). The late 19th and early 20th century produced such giants of electrical engineering as Nikola Tesla, Samuel Morse, Antonio Meucci, Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, Werner von Siemens, Charles Steinmetz, and Alexander Graham Bell.
2006-10-25 11:31:38 · answer #1 · answered by phantomlimb7 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one invented electricity, it was discovered here in America by Ben Franklin, who was experimenting with a kite and a key.
2006-10-25 18:24:24 · answer #2 · answered by WC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
electricity was not "invented". Popular legend says that benjamin franklin first harnessed electricity.
2006-10-25 18:23:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
thomas edison...but then Benjamin franklin and his kite first experienced electricity.
2006-10-25 18:23:49 · answer #4 · answered by Ravi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋