
BENJAMIN
FRANKLIN
When lightening
flashed, a tiny spark jumped from the key to his wrist. The experiment proved
Franklin's theory, but was extremely dangerous - he could easily have been
killed.
Michael
Faraday

The credit for generating electric current on
a practical scale goes to the famous English scientist, Michael Faraday.
Faraday was greatly interested in the invention of the electromagnet, but his
brilliant mind took earlier experiments still further. If electricity could
produce magnetism, why couldn't magnetism produce electricity?
OHM
George Simon Ohm, a German mathematician and physicist, was a college
teacher in Cologne when in 1827 he published, "The Galvanic Circuit
Investigated Mathematically". His theories were coldly received by German
scientists, but his research was recognized in Britain and he was awarded the
Copley Medal in 1841. His name has been given to the unit of electrical
resistance.