Major Discoveries in Electrical Communication in the 1800’s

There were many inventions that were created in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that had a huge impact on life in the United States. Some of these inventions were the telephone, the electric light bulb, and the airplane. The telephone was created by Alexander Graham Bell, the light bulb by Thomas Edison, and the airplane by Wilbur and Orville Wright.

When the lightning rod connected to the frog was struck by lightning, the energy surge caused the frog’s leg to twitch. He came to the conclusion that electricity lies in the animals, and that it is essential to movement. Alessandro Volta was somewhat a rival of Galvani, as they had opposing views. Volta thought that the electricity did not come from within the animals, but that it came from the connection of two metals. He tested

Ben Franklin was a very curious and inventive thinker. He kept thinking about different ways to experiment with electricity so he came up with an experiment with only a few materials (wire,mobile kite, handkerchief,and two sticks).(”Benjamin Franklin and Electricity”) Franklin

In 1981 he invented the “Tesla coil” and it is still used in radio technology today. He invented the Tesla coil to investigate the electrical realm of high-frequency and high-voltage,

This article explained how electricity was generated in the early 1900s. Burning coal in the city centers produced electricity and also helped to heat buildings. Only people near from the city were able to use electricity because there was not way to transmit the electricity to rural areas. After a long time coal plants started to grew and people were facing difficulties because the coal plants occupied space and they also produced pollution to the city. People decided to move coal plants to the outside of the city in that way people would not be affected, they started to use transmission wires to carry electricity. Even though they did not have the same efficacy to obtain electricity they were finding a way to improve it. At the beginning of 1970 technology began to improve, so many mass-produce engines were produce and they can be located in the middle of the population, also decentralized plants were used to recycle the wasted heat. After all these benefits of the new technology, industry decided to make some changes. Electric monopolies started to charge people for the use of electricity. Later on, congress tried to open competition in 1978 and some independent power companies started to develop one site generation. This article was focused in a research on how to build new power generation providing technology, capital costs and fuel prices. After all of this significant and dramatic changes in electricity, United States was facing problems because the power industry

Otherwise their static. No one believed Maxwell, and Hertz set out to prove Maxwell right. Hertz used two rods to serve as a receivers. When the applied a spark to one of the rods, he could get it to jump to the other rod. Hertz discovered how to make the electric and magnetic fields separate themselves and travel freely. ("The origins of radio, n.d." )

Today we know the electrical fluid to be electrons. Franklin was the first to write that electric charge and be collected not created. The law of Conservation of Electric Charge means that you can neither create nor destroy electric charge. In 1752, his most famous works were brought out such as proof that lightning is electricity. In 1753, Franklin received the Copley Medal from Britain’s Royal Society, which was the equivalent of a modern Nobel Prize. Franklin also invented the lightning rod, which we still use today, it has saved countless lives. He and John Hadley investigated the refrigeration principle. Because of this, we now know the reason of the refrigeration

People such as Benjamin Franklin, Eli Whitney, and Samuel F.B. Morse have made life changing moments in history. Franklin introduce the idea of electricity, with his more commonly known experiment the key and kite. Though Franklin only established a connection with lightning and electricity, it lead to greater discoveries. Such as the controversy, Tesla versus Edison, and alternating currents(AC) versus direct currents(DC). With all invention there is the common theme of aiding civilization; to make diffucult tasks simpler, but we can't always predict the outcomes.

Soon after his retirement Franklin became extremely interested in experimenting with electricity. Franklin was one of the first people to suggest that lightning was merely naturally occurring electricity, and that it could be drawn from the clouds. In 1752, Ben Franklin performed his kite experiment. Here Franklin had his proof of lightning’s electrical nature. Franklin wrote specifics on how the experiment was to be done, it said.

Franklin proved that lighting was electricity and his discovery led to our world, starting with America, being more scientifically informed.

In the 18th century Italian Physicist Alessando Volta developed the electrolytic cell. Volta experimented with electric current, becoming the first to stimulate the auditory system electrically. In which he attached two metal rods to a battery of approximately 50V and inserted one rod in each ear. When the circuit was completed, he felt a sensation

Franklin published his theories in a book titled "Experiments and Observations on Electricity Made at Philadelphia". It became a best seller in Europe as well as in the colonies. The main topic of this book was Franklin's theory that lightning was electrical energy. This was not a new idea, but Benjamin Franklin was the first to perform an experiment on it. He said that if a metal rod was to be placed on top of a tower or a tall building, it would be struck by lightning and hold an electrical charge. Many scientists in Europe tried this experiment, and some had successful results. When a French scientist, De Lor, attempted to repeat one of the proposed experiments from the book a huge crowd of curious people had gathered in Paris to see it.

Nikola Tesla is regarded as one of the most brilliant inventors in history. His work provided the basis for the modern alternating current power system, as well as having developed both radio and the fluorescent light bulb. He worked with Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse, among others. He was also widely misunderstood by his peers and the public at large.

Farnsworth (T.V). The design, construction and manufacturing of useful devices and systems began with the implementation of Michael Faraday’s Law, one of the fundamental laws in electrical engineering, that states that the voltage in a circuit is proportional to the rate of change in the magnetic field through the circuit (www.livescience.com “What is Electrical Engineering?” by Jim Lucas)

Originally electricity and magnetism were thought of as two separate forces. This view changed, however, with the publication of James Clerk Maxwell's 1873Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism in which the interactions of positive and negative charges were shown to be regulated by one force. There are four main effects resulting from these interactions, all of which have been clearly demonstrated by experiments: