| History of Electricity and Magnetism | ||
| ??? BC | ??? Amber and Electricity 624/623BC-548/545BC Thales of Miletus |
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| 1550 | Distinction between electricity and magnetism 1501-1576 Girolamo Cardano |
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| 1600 | The First Use of The Term "electrica (electricus)" 1544-1603 William Gilbert |
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| 1646 | The First English Translation "electric" or "electrical"
corresponding to the Latin "electrica" 1605-1682 Thomas Browne |
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| 1672 | The First Electrostatic Generator 1602-1686 Otto von Guericke |
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| 1791 | Animal Electricity 1737-1798 Luigi Galvani |
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| 1800 | Battery 1745-1827 Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta |
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| 1752 | Battery Tongue Test 1720-1779 Johann Georg Sulzer |
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| 1745 | Leyden Jar 1692-1761 Pieter van Musschenbroek 1700-1748 Ewald Georg von Kleist |
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| 1782 | Condenser 1745-1827 Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta |
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| 1744 | Transmission of electricity and its speed 1703-1770 Johann Heinrich Winkler |
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| 1733 | Glass (Vitreous) Electricity and Resin (Resinous) Electricity 1698-1739 Charles François De Cisternay Du Fay |
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| 1747 | Positive (+) and Negative (-) Electricity 1706-1790 Benjamin Franklin |
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| 1729 | Conduction of Electricity through Materials 1666-1736 Stephen Gray |
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| 1785 | Coulomb's Law 1736-1806 Charles-Augustin de Coulomb |
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| 1784 | Relationships between Electricity and Magnetism 1746-1823 Jan Henri van Swinden |
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| 1820 | Theory for Magnetic Effects of Electrical Current 1775-1836 André-Marie Ampère |
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| 1820 | The Discovery of Magnetic Effects of Electrical Current 1777-1851 Hans Christian Oersted |
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| 1826 | Ohm's Law 1789-1854 Georg Simon Ohm |
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| 1831 | The Discovery of Electromagnetic Induction 1791-1867 Michael Faraday |
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| 1833 | The First Documented Observation of a Semiconductor 1791-1867 Michael Faraday |
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| 1834 | Electrochemical Terms (electrode, anode, cathode, anion, cation, ...) 1791-1867 Michael Faraday |
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| 1874 | Prediction of the elementary charge or "electron" 1826-1911 George Johnstone Stoney |
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| 1752 1858 |
Vaccum Discharges 1715-1787 William Watson 1814-1879 Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Geißler 1801-1868 Julius Plücker |
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| 1869 1876 1879 1883 1892 1894 |
Cathode Rays 1824-1914 Johan Wilhelm Hittorf 1850-1930 Eugen Goldstein 1832-1919 William Crookes 1857-1894 Heinrich Rudolf Hertz 1862-1947 Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard |
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| 1895 1897 |
Discovery of Electrons 1856-1940 Joseph John Thomson 1870-1942 Jean Baptiste Perrin 1861-1928 Emil Johann Wiechert 1851-1901 George Francis FitzGerald |
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| 1899 1903 1909 1910 |
Measurement of Elementary Charge 1856-1940 Joseph John Thomson 1869-1959 Charles Thomson Rees Wilson 1874-1964 Harold Albert Wilson 1868-1953 Robert Andrews Millikan |
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| 1895 1897 1900 1916 |
Free Electrons in Metals 1865-1943 Pieter Zeeman 1853-1928 Hendrik Antoon 1863-1906 Paul Drude 1881-1948 Richard Chace Tolman 1890-1958 Thomas Dale Stewart |
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