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Historical Figure involved

in the Development of
Electricity
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Conducted the
famous kite
experiment on 1752.
He testified that
lightning is electricity.
He invent the
Lightning Rod which
protected buildings
and ships from
lightning damage.
Father of Electricity
CHARLES A. DE COULOMB
French Physicist
Coulombs Law: the
definition of the
electrostatic force of
attraction and repulsion
Develop a torsion
balance to measure the
force between two
electric charges.

ALESSANDRO VOLTA
19
TH
Century
Italian physicist
Found out that he
could get
electricity from a
voltaic cell
consisting of two
dissimilar metals
in salt water.
Voltaic Pile
First Practical Battery

LUIGI GALVANI
Wet Battery

1800
Voltaic pile
NAPOLEON


French Emperor
Made volta a
count
GEORG SIMON OHM
Formulated the Ohms
Law
OHMS LAW-
Relationship between
the potential difference
(voltage), electric
current, and resistance
in an electric circuit.

JAMES CLERK MAXWELL
Electricity and
Magnetism
Light, Electricity and
Magnetism are
related.

( Electromagnetic
Theory)
ROBERT ANDREWS MILLIKAN
Outstanding
American
experimental
Physicist.
Cosmic Rays
Photoelectric Effect

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