Category
page 1People associated with electricity
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856–1943)
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831–1879)
James Prescott Joule
English physicist and brewer (1818–1889)
André-Marie Ampère
French physicist and mathematician (1775–1836)
Alessandro Volta
Italian physicist, chemist, and pioneer of electricity and power (1745-1827)
Georg Simon Ohm
German physicist and mathematician
Humphry Davy
British chemist
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
British physicist and engineer (1824–1907)
Hans Christian Ørsted
Danish physicist and chemist (1777-1851)
William Gilbert
English physician, physicist and natural philosopher (1544-1603)
Wilhelm Eduard Weber
German physicist (1804–1891)
Joseph Henry
American scientist and the 1st Secretary of the Smithsonian (1797-1878)
Siméon Denis Poisson
French mathematician, mechanician and physicist (1781–1840)
Oliver Heaviside
electrical engineer, mathematician and physicist (1850–1925)
Emil Lenz
Baltic German physicist (1804-1865)
Charles Wheatstone
British scientist and inventor (1802–1875)
Charles Algernon Parsons
inventor of the steam turbine (1854-1931)
John Frederic Daniell
English chemist and physicist
Joseph Swan
British physicist and inventor (1828-1914)
Robert J. Van de Graaff
American physicist (1901–1967)
Stephen Gray
British astronomer
William Robert Grove
British judge and chemist (1811–1896)
Antonio Pacinotti
Italian physicist (1841-1912)
Granville Tailer Woods
American inventor
Ányos Jedlik
Hungarian physicist and Roman Catholic priest
John Sealy Townsend
Irish mathematical physicist (1868–1957)
Thomas Davenport
American inventor (1802–1851)
Hippolyte Pixii
French instrument maker (1808–1835)
Samuel Hunter Christie
British mathematician
Golding Bird
British medical doctor (1814–1854)
Charles Grafton Page
American scientist (1812–1868)
Moses G. Farmer
American inventor (1820–1893)
Philip Diehl
German-American engineer and inventor
Karol Pollak
Polish inventor and businessman
Georg Matthias Bose
German physicist and writer (1710-1761)
Edward Davy
British doctor and scientist (1806–1885)
William Francis Channing
American activist, physician and inventor
Andrew Crosse
British amateur scientist (1784–1855)
Louis-Élisabeth de La Vergne de Tressan
French writer (1705-1783)
Edmund Germer
German inventor (1901–1987)
Alexander Gorlov
American scientist and inventor (1931–2016)