First practical use of electrical energy?

Question

What was the first practical use of electrical energy ?
When electrical energy was first used successfully to perform a very essential and much-needed function?

Answer 1

A very early form of electric energy was the ancient egyptians made simple batteries from clay pots, copper rods and lemon juice. Probaly for primitive polarity experiments. Electricity was probaly first used practicaly by thomas edison when he created the lightbulb. The cathode ray tube was also a great success, made in the late 19th early 20th century. When they fired electrons in a contained glass tubs a black spot would show up on a far end. This idea eventualy evolved into the television. G.Boole a scientist in the 18th century created a form of math called Boolean Logic, this math has been used in circuit boards and electronics to this day. He also created a computational machine. It was far more mechanical than electronic however.

Answer 2

Hi:

the Ancient Babylon used it for electroplating and the Ancient Greek used electric rays or eels for medical healing then it was losted until it was rediscovered the late 1700's,

When it was it was used to make a the lighting storm detector it work like this: you ran a very thin wire up to a lighting rod and to a small metal ball that was between two bells, As the storm approached it generate a static charge on the lighting rod that went to the metal ball via the wire because the ball had a charge and one of the bells didn't and the ball wanting to get rid this charge was attached to one of the bells when; it hit the bell; the ball no longer charged by the static charge being went back to it original position but a soon as that happened the storm would recharge the ball again and it would be attached to the other bell making a ding-ding sound warning the men that a storm was approaching and to take over at once.

By the way, Ben Franklin also proved that lighting was electricity when he flew his kite in a thunderstorm

How do I know this: I was watching the History Channel on Ben Franklin Tech and this was talked about in the show.

The other was the electrostatic Motor made by Ben Franklin, the
next was the telegraph invented by Samuel Morse.

Answer 3

H. Wilde made the commercially successful Alliance generator (1866) for powering arc lamps in lighthouses.

The era of large-scale electric power distribution arguably began on August 26, 1895, when water flowing over Niagara Falls was diverted through a pair of high-speed turbines that were coupled to two 5,000-horsepower generators. The bulk of the electricity produced at about 2200 volts and used locally for the manufacture of aluminum and carborundum.

In London power was available by 1883.

Answer 4

Hands down - it was Edison and his light bulb.

Up until this invention, electricity was more or less commercial or just a laboratory oddity.