HISTORY Flashcards
static electricity and lightning are the same
BEN FRANKLIN, 1752
electric battery, volt
ALESSANDRO VOLTA, 1800
arc lamp
HUMPHRY DAVY, 1808
relationship between electricity and magnetism
OERSTED, AMPERE, ARAGO, 1820
first electric motor
MICHAEL FARADA, 1821
ohm’s law
GEORG OHM, 1826
electricity can be made in an electromagnetic field
MICHAEL FARADAY, 2831
principle of electromagnetic induction
JOSEPH HENRY, 1831
dynamo
HIPPOLYTE PIXII, 1832
electric relay
JOSEPH HENRY, 1835
electric motor
THOMAS DAVENPORT, 1837
first fuel cell
SIR WILLIAM ROBERT GROVE, 1839
energy is conserved, joule
JAMES PRESCOTT JOULE, 1841
electric telegraph
SAMUEL MORSE, 1844
mathematical theory, Maxwell’s Equations
J.C. MAXWELL, 1860
Open coil
CHARLES BRUSH, 1876
First incandescent light bulb
JOSEPH SWAN AND ENGLISHMAN, 1878
Lamp powered bybgenerator
CHARLES BRUSH, 1878
Edison Electric Light Co.
THOMAS EDISON, 1878
THOMAS EDISON, 1879
Pearl Street Power Station
THIMAS EDISON, 1882
Tesla coil
NIKOLA TESLA, 1883
Electric alternator
NIKOLA TESLA, 1884
Induction coil transformer, AC system
WILLIAM STANLEY, 1886
discovered electron
JOSEPH JOHN THOMSON, 1897
HIGHEST STEAM TEMP REACHES TO ___F FROM ___F IN (YEAR)
900, 600, 1936
hoover dam was completed
1936
transistor
BELL TELEPHONE LABORATORIES, 1947
345 kilovolt transmission line
1953
worlds first nuclear plant (country and date)
RUSSIA, 1954
atomic energy act of what year
1954
shipping port reactor (place and year)
PENNSYLVANIA, 1957