Who Invented Electricity? Detailed answer

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Who Invented Electricity?

As for electricity, it is curious that it has been studied for many thousands of years, and we still do not know exactly what it is! Today it is believed that it consists of tiny charged particles. Electricity, according to this theory, is a moving stream of electrons or other charged particles.

The word "electricity" comes from the Greek word for "electron". Do you know what this word means? It means "amber". You know, back in 600 BC. e. The Greeks knew that if amber was rubbed, it was able to attract small pieces of cork and paper to itself.

Great progress in the study of electricity was not made until 1672. This year, a man named Otto von Guerricke, holding his hand near a spinning ball of sulfur, received a more powerful charge of electricity. In 1729, Stephen Gray discovered that certain substances, in particular metals, can conduct electricity. Such substances became known as "conductors". He found that other substances, such as glass, sulfur, amber, and wax, did not conduct electricity. They were called "insulators".

The next important step was taken in 1733, when a Frenchman named du Fay discovered positive and negative electric charges, although he thought they were two different kinds of electricity. Benjamin Franklin was the first to try to explain what electricity is. In his opinion, all substances in nature contain "electric fluid". Friction between some substances takes some of this fluid from one substance, adding it to another. Today we would say that this liquid is composed of negatively charged electrons.

Perhaps the science of electricity began to develop rapidly from the moment Alessandro Volta invented the battery in 1800. This invention gave people the first permanent and reliable source of energy and led to all the important discoveries in this field.

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