The History of Electricity

The History of Electricity

Collected By:

Abd-Alhady Mostafa Abd-Alhalem Abozeid

3^rd Year of Mechanical power branch (Mech. dep.)

1^st Group - Section: 6 - Bn#133

Contents

Georg Simon Ohm and Resistance. 2

Gustav Robert Kirchhoff 3

Luigi Galvani and the Discovery of Nerve Excitation. 4

Benjamin Franklin. 4

Sir Charles Wheatstone. 5

André Marie Ampère. 5

Michael Faraday and the Field Concept 6

Magnetism and Electromagnetism.. 7

The Discovery of Electromagnetic Induction. 7

Thomas Alva Edison. 8

Charles Proteus Steinmetz. 9

Henry Cavendish. 10

Heinrich Rudolph Hertz. 10

Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz. 11

William Bradford Shockley. 12

Edwin Howard Armstrong—Radio Reception. 12

Alexander Graham Bell 13

Nikola Tesla. 14

George Westinghouse. 14

Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier 15

References 16

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