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Robert Boyle discovered that electric force could be transmitted through a vacuum and observed attraction and repulsion.
•knowledge that electric current does not need air to travel through
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Stephen Gray's discovery of the conduction of electricity.
•transfer energy through wires
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:Charles Francois du Fay discovered that electricity comes in two forms which he called resinous(-)and vitreous(+).
Benjamin Franklin and Ebenezer Kinnersley later renamed the two forms as positive and negative.
-knowledge on this to conduct electricity
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Georg Von Kleist discovered that electricity was controllable. Dutch physicist, Pieter van Musschenbroek invented the "Leyden Jar" the first electrical capacitor. Leyden jars store static electricity.
•can used controlled energy so your not getting too much
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Benjamin Franklin invented the lightening rod - he demonstrated lightning
•invention that controlled energy
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Joseph Priestley discovered that electricity followed Newton's inverse-square law of gravity.
-knowledge that opposites attract
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Italian physician, Luigi Galvani demonstrated what we now understand to be the electrical basis of nerve impulses when he made frog muscles twitch by jolting them with a spark from an electrostatic machine.
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First electric battery invented by Alessandro Volta. Volta proved that electricity could travel over wires.
you can control and direct energy current through wires
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Firstenergy utility in US founded.
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Relationship of electricity and magnetism confirmed by Hans Christian Oersted who observed that electrical currents affected the needle on a compass and Marie Ampere, who discovered that a coil of wires acted like a magnet when a current is passed through it.
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First electric motor invented by Michael Faraday
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Ohm's Law written by Georg Simon Ohm states that "conduction law that relates potential, current, and circuit resistance"
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Joseph Henry's electromagnetic experiments lead to the concept of electrical inductance.Joseph Henry built one of the first electrical motors.
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Principles of electromagnetism induction, generation and transmission discovered by Michael Faraday.
•we can manually generate energy
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first industrial electric motors
•first major electric motor http://chestofbooks.com/food/household/Woman-Encyclopaedia-4/images/The-Dowsing-electric-heater-Tvs-device-needs-but-tittle-a.jpg -
First fuel cell invented by Sir William Robert Grove, a Welsh judge, inventor and physicist
•new technology, environmentally friendly
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J. P. Joule's law of electrical heating published.
using electric to heat homes
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James Clerk Maxwell wrote equations that described the electromagnetic field, and predicted the existence of electromagnetic waves traveling with the speed of light.
•really understanding the background of electricity
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Edison Electric Light Co. (US) and American Electric and Illuminating (Canada) founded.
•lighting companies being produced and producing electric lights
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First commercial power station opens in San Francisco, uses Charles Brush generator and arc lights. First commercial arc lighting system
installed, Cleveland, Ohio.
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First power system isolated from Edison. In Grand Rapids Michigan: Charles Brush arc light dynamo driven by water turbine used to provide theater and storefront
illumination.
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Niagara Falls, New York; Charles Brush dynamo, connected to turbine in Quigley's flour mill lights city street lamps.
•using the energy to run electrical things in the city
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Edison Company opens Pearl Street power station.
The first hydroelectric power station opens in Wisconsin.
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The electric transformer is invented. Thomas Edison introduces the "three-wire" transmission system.
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Steam turbine invented by Charles Parsons.
•use steam to produce energy
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William Stanley develops transformer and Alternating Current electric system. Frank Sprague builds first American transformer and demonstrates use of step up and step down transformers for long distance AC power transmission in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. The Westinghouse Electric Company is organized. 40 to 50 water powered electric plants reported on line or under construction in the U.S. and Canada.
world wide use of renewable energy
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In San Bernardino, California, the High Grove Station, first hydroelectric plant in the West is opened.
•new power plants that producy renewable energy all the time.
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Rotating field AC alternator invented by Nikola Tesla
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Oregon City Oregon, Willamette Falls station, first AC hydroelectric plant.
Single phase power transmitted 13 miles to Portland at 4,000 volts, stepped down to 50 volts for distribution
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60 cycle AC system introduced in U.S.
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General Electric Company formed by the merger of Thomson-Houston and Edison General Electric.
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Westinghouse demonstrates "universal system" of generation and distribution at Chicago exposition.In Austin, Texas, the first dam designed specifically for hydroelectric power built across Colorado River is completed.
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Electron discovered by J. J. Thomson.
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Kelly, Will Michael. "World of Famous Inventors and Inventions." <i>About.com Inventors</i>. About.com, 11 Nov. 2015. Web. 11 Nov. 2015.
