who invented electricity?

Answer 1

Thor

Answer 2

Inventor of Electricity
Electricity wasn't invented. Its properties were discovered, examined and explained.
Thales of Miletus in ancient Greece is the earliest record I can find of experimentation with electrical properties. There are two types, lightning and man made.

Here are more opinions and answers from other FAQ Farmers:

* Alessandro Volta invented the first source of continuous electric current.

* Benjamin Franklin.

* No, Franklin proved that lightning was electrical in nature and performed several experiments with the properties of the (known) force of electricity. Electricity has always been around, of course; I believe the other respondents are correct in saying Volta was the first to identify it as a force.

* No one "invented" electricity. It was discovered.

* It was 'discovered' by alessandro volta

* No, it was discovered thousands of years before that. Thales of Miletus, a Greek in 600AD discovered static electricity that attracted pieces of straw and hair to rubbed rods of amber. Volta invented the first real battery, in 1779. Benjamin Franklin was the first to liken static charges ot lightening, and found them ot be the same thing, electricity. He also discovered the difference between negative and positive charges. The word 'electricity' actually comes from the Greek 'elektron' meaning amber.

* Well, no one really "invented" electricity, but you can ask who discovered it. While people have known about the powerful effects of lightning for thousands of years, the first person to discover that lightning was a naturally occuring form of electricity was Benjamin Franklin. In 1752, during a dangerous electrical storm, Franklin flew a kite that had a metal key at the bottom of the string. When a bolt of lightning hit the kite, a spark of electricity flew from the key! From this experiment, Franklin invented the lightning rod, which attracts lightning and draws it into the ground. This saves many buildings from burning down.

Answer 3

No one really invented electricity. Since people new about lighting millions of years ago. However the first Scientist to discover lightning was Benjamin Franklin in1752. Later some scientists developed his theory.Michael Faraday, Luigi Galvani, Alessandro Volta, André-Marie Ampère, and Georg Simon Ohm. All the names of these scientists are used in electricity.

Answer 4

There has been electricity since the beginning of time. No one has 'invented' it.

Alessandro Volta invented the electric battery in 1800

Answer 5

You Americans think you are so smart, in your textbooks it says that General Electric invented electricity, but this is not so. Electricity was invented in Russia, in 1783, by Field Marshal Elektrisitij, but invention was stolen by capitalists for use to crush the proletariat.

Answer 6

Electricity is the transfer of electrons. It is a natural process and thus can't be invented. However, it was first described in detail, I believe, by Ben Franklin.

Answer 7

Most of your answers must be American since only one mentioned Michael Faraday who researched electro magnetic induction making generators and transformers possible. Electricity is a natural phenomenon so any inventions concerned producing it under controlled conditions and finding ways of using it.

Answer 8

As mentioned... electicity is a natural process - it was not 'invented' by anyone. . . . even 'god'.

However, we are slowly begining to understand a little bit about what it does... even if we are still not sure exactly what it is or why it does what it does.

Some folk that have helped in that understanding include

Thales of Miletus
Alessandro Volta
Ben Franklin
Michael Faraday
Orchestral Maneouvres In The Dark (OMD)

Answer 9

No-one "invented" electricity, it was discovered by Benjamin Franklin.

Answer 10

Benjamin franklin discovered electricity, but didn't relise its potential. It was Michael Faraday who made the first type of Battery and a Frenchman improved on this by producing the "LeclancheCell" which was a more improved type of battery cell.