I wrote in this blog http://globalpioneering.com/wp02/ that Benjamin Franklin founded the science of electricity but in physics textbooks he is not mentioned at all. Instead physics textbooks mention Newton as the discoverer of law of electricity. For instance, Coulomb's law. Can anyone verify this?
When you look at physics textbooks is Benjamin Franklin mentioned as a great scientist who founded the science of electricity or is he not mentioned at all?
Thanks so much for your help.
2007-01-11 15:00:16 · 6 answers · asked by gravytee 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Depends on the book. Franklin was the first to make the connection between lightning in the sky and static electricity generated as a parlor trick. Then again, he also advanced the science of optics with his invention of bifocal glasses.
2007-01-11 15:07:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-07 00:55:49 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Neither Franklin nor Newton founded the science of electricity. The biggest contributors were Galvani, da Volta and Faraday. Of these, Faraday wasn't the first to study electricity but arguably he contributed the most. Franklin established that lightning is electricity and nearly sent himself to the electric chair in the process.
2007-01-11 15:20:10 · answer #3 · answered by zee_prime 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Newton did not work in electricity, his work was in mechanics and optics. others such as Faraday, Volta and Coulomb pioneered the mathematical description of electricity. What Franklin did was to demonstrate that static electricity and lightning were the same thing. In that sense he was not a physicist, but and inventer, like Edison after him
2007-01-11 15:36:45 · answer #4 · answered by walter_b_marvin 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
mine mentions and has a picture. in fact there are more than 10 references to him
2007-01-11 19:22:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no he is not mentioned.
2007-01-11 15:08:47 · answer #6 · answered by Johanna V 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋