History of Electrodynamics
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| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| About 600 BC | Thales, who lived in Greece, studied attractive forces associated with magnets, and a resin called "amber."(see ref1) |
| 1600 | William Gilbert(1544-1603, British), wrote "De magnete". In this book, he explained why compass needle points north-south: the Earth itself is magnetic. |
| 1745 | Dutch physicist Pieter van Musschenbroek of the University of Leyden and Ewald Georg von Kleist of Pomerania invented the Leyden Jar.(see ref2) |
| 1747 | Benjamin Franklin (1706-90, American) realized there are two kind of charge: positive charge and negative charge and the law of charge conservation. |
| 1785 | Charles A. de Coulomb (French),Coulomb's Law . |
| 1799 | Alessandro Volta (Italian) Voltaic Cell invented the Voltaic Cell. |
| 1820 | Hans Christian Oersted(1777-1851) noticed an electric current produced a magnetic field. |
| 1820 | Andre Marie Ampere, Jean-Baptute Biot,and Felix Savart. |
| 1826 | Georg Simon Ohm (German) Established the Ohm's Law. |
| 1831 | Michael Faraday (British), pointed out electromagnetic induction in the production of electric current, by a change in magnetic intensity. |
| 1865 | James Maxwell (1831-1879, British), Maxwell Equation. |
| 1910 | Albert Einstein (1879-1955, German), theory of Relativity. |
Reference
1.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thales
2.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leyden_jar