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Saturday, 22 March 2014

The history of the discovery of electricity

     The ancient Greeks and Parthians know about an electric static by rubbing things with wool. Although scientific exploration of this phenomenon started in Renaissance Europe, the electricity is only used in magic tricks and games, until the discovery of a deeper made ​​at the end of the 18th century until the mid-19th century.

     Although the "design" of Benjamin Franklin Electric to fly kites during thunderstorms but more to fiction than fact, but his theories about the relationship between lightning and static electricity has raised interest later scientists to study more about electricity, and the results of their work is what has been the foundation of electrical technology nowadays.

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