Who is the inventor of electricity

 The truth about the invention of electricity

When asking a question such as: (Who invented electricity), this question must be answered by clarifying that electricity was not invented but rather discovered. It is a form of energy that humans have taken a long time to discover in nature. The real story of the discovery of electricity is a complex one, its first chapters began around 600 BC, and it was not just one person who discovered electricity, but many great minds who contributed to the fact that we enjoy everything today.  The luxury that electricity provides us.

Contributors to the discovery of electricity

Greek philosopher Thales Maltese

Man first discovered the existence of electricity in the fifth century BC, and that was in the era of Greek civilization; They noticed that the amber substance generates an attractive force for light bodies when it comes into contact with wool, and this phenomenon has remained the focus of researchers and scientists, even the Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus, known as one of the legendary Seven Sages; He is considered the first to study electricity, and he gave a clear explanation of it through the experience of the amber stone rubbing against the skin, and he pointed out the stone's ability to attract feathers, dust and other lightweight materials.  Static electricity experiments.

William Gilbert and scholars after 1600 AD

The history of the invention of electricity is associated with the scientist and physicist William Gilbert, the physician of Queen Elizabeth I of England. ) for its magnetic properties, and that rubbing amber will lead to the adhesion of some materials to it, and Gilbert raised the issue of electricity within his dissertation written in Latin, and the scientist put in this book a summary of his experiments and research related to magnetism and electricity,  and the scientist Gilbert nicknamed (the father of modern electricity) invented the word (Electricus), which is the Latin equivalent of the word (amber) to describe the forces that appear in materials when they come into contact with each other, and the word (electricity) appeared for the first time several years later when the English scientist Thomas Brown used it in his books that he wrote after studying

• The scientist Otto von Guericke (German: Otto von Guericke) says in 1660 AD, he invented a machine to generate static electricity.
•  Scientist Francis Huxby: Invented an improved electrostatic generator.
•  Scientist Robert Boyle: He discovered that there are repulsive forces along with attractive forces, and that electricity travels in a vacuum.
•  Scientist Stephen Gray: (In English: Stephen Gray) conducted many experiments in which he showed the presence of materials that conduct electricity and other materials that do not conduct electricity. 
•  The scientist Charles de Fay: (French: Charles F du Fay) distinguished between two types of electricity, which paved the way for the emergence of the concepts of positive and negative electric charges developed by Benjamin Franklin and the scientist (Ebenezer Keenersley) later. . 
•  Scientist Peter van Musschenbroek: (Dutch: Peter van Musschenbroek) invented the Leyden jar in 1745, a flask that stored and condensed static electricity.
•  Scientist William Watson: He was able to discharge static electricity from a Leyden flask.
•  Scientist Henry Cavendish: He managed to study the conductivity of materials.
• The scientist Charles de Coulomb says: (French: Charles de Coulomb), he discovered the law relating to the forces of attraction between electrified particles.

Benjamin Franklin and the Scientists before Thomas Edison

negative electricity, based on the attraction or repulsion created by electrically charged objects.  Therefore, he was able to divide electric charges into positive and negative charges  and in 1752 AD. "C" performed his famous experiment using a kite and a key attached to it during a thunderstorm, during which he was able to prove the existence of a relationship between lightning and electricity.   The frog's legs move as a result of the discharge of static electricity, so it was mistakenly assumed that the frog's leg generates electricity, but the scientist Alessandro Volta (Italian: Alessandro Volta) believed otherwise, and invented the first battery that produced a constant electric current.   As proof that the current generates electricity.

Thomas Edison and the invention of the incandescent lamp

magnetic field is generated around a wire if an electric current passes through it.  In 1873 AD many electromagnetic laws were established, and the scientist François Arago (French: François Arago) invented the electromagnet, after that came the scientist Michael Faraday, who was the first to pass an electric current through wires, and paved the way.   With his invention of electromagnetic devices for the beginning of the rise of electric generator technology, the scientist Hippolyte Pixii (in French: Hippolyte Pixii) built on Faraday's model to make a manual electric generator, and this door was opened for both American scientist Thomas Edison and British scientist Joseph Swan (English: Joseph Swan) for inventing the incandescent lamp around 1878 AD.  , and both established a joint venture to produce the first incandescent lamp and were able to light the first electric streetlights. They settled in New York in September 1882.

Edison's discovery of low-cost, high-quality lamp and lighting laid the foundation for the electricity industry and power plant construction; Croatian scientist Nikola Tesla used alternating current (AC); For the transmission of electricity over long distances, alternating current became the common electric current all over the world, after George Westinghouse implemented the AC system commercially in his company and a public hydroelectric power station (waterfall) was established.  1883 AD, during which low-cost and more efficient electricity was generated. Subsequently, the Swedish engineer Gustav de Laval (Swedish: Gustav de Laval) at the end of the nineteenth century designed a steam engine that extracts heat energy from pressurized steam, and converts it into rotating motion.  Technology, where British engineer Charles Parsons invented the first turbine generator in 1884 AD, which generated only 7.5 kilowatts, but with a low conversion efficiency. More or less, he continued to develop his invention until he could invent the first turbine capacitor, and in 1900 AD, he established the first power plant with a capacity of 1 megawatt, and the turbine continued to generate most of the electricity. Produced all over the world.