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History of Electricity!
it is possible to trace the history of the harnessing of electrical power and identify the people responsible for various breakthroughs along the way, it is difficult to put a name to the person who first discovered electricity.
Very early in human history, people would have witnessed lightning, an obvious natural manifestation, but would have been unable to explain it.
History of electricity starts with William Gilbert, a physician during the Elizabethan age.
The foundation of modern electricity science was establish during the Elizabethan age.
Ben Franklin DID NOT discover electricity, he discovered that electricity and lightning are the same.
Henry Cavendish and Luigi Galvani found different uses for electricity.
Timeline!
History of electricity goes back to at least 620-550 BCE
1729- Stephen Gray discovered the principle of conduction of electricity.
1733- Charles Francois Du Fay discovered that electricity comes in two forms which is negative and positive.
1747- Henry Cavendish started measuring conductivity of different materials.
1786- Luigi Galvani demonstrated electrical nerve impulses.
Moving Forward!
Although the majority of people living in larger towns and cities had electricity by 1930, only 10 percent of Americans who lived on farms and in rural areas had electric power. At this time, electric companies were all privately owned and run to make money. These companies argued that it would be too expensive to string miles of electric lines to farms. They also thought farmers were too poor to pay for electric service.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt believed strongly that America's farming areas should have the same access to electricity as cities did. In 1935 the Rural Electric Administration was created and part of the New deal programs to bring electricity to rural areas like the Tennessee Valley.
By 1939 the percentage of rural homes with electricity had risen to 25 percent. The Tennessee Valley Authority also set up the Electric Home and Farm Authority to help farmers buy electric appliances like stoves and washing machines. Farm families of that time found that these helpful electric appliances made their lives much easier.
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