LESSON 1: Alessandro Volta, disagreed: he
BASIC ELECTRICAL IDEAS & UNITS realized that the main factors in
Galvani’s discovery were the two
different metals the steel knife and the
ELECTRICITY tin plate upon which the frog was
Form of energy lying.
Greatest discovers of man Come From Volta showed that when moisture
the greek word ” ELECTRON” means comes between two different metals,
amber. electricity is created.
Electricity all about electrons, This led him to invent the first
electric battery, the voltaic pile,
STATIC ELECTRICITY – involves which he made from thin sheets of
electrons that are moved from one place to copper and zinc separated by moist
another, usually by rubbing or brushing. pasteboard.
CUREENT ELECTRICITY – Involves the -MICHAEL FARADAY
flow of electrons in a conductor The credit for generating electric
current on a practical scale goes to the
famous English scientist, Michael
“FAMOUS CONTRIBUTION ABOUT Faraday.
ELECTRICITY” Faraday found the solution. Electricity
could be produced through
1. William Gilbert Magnetism by motion. He
2. Benjamin Franklin discovered that when a magnet was
3. Galvani and Volta moved inside a coil of copper wire, a
4. Michael faraday tiny electric current flows through the
wire.
5. James watt
6. Andre Marie ampere
-JAMES WATT
7. George ohm
James Watt, the Scottish inventor of
the steam condensing engine, was
-William Gilbert: born in 1736. His improvements to
father of electricity steam engines were patented over a
The lectric attraction period of 15 years, starting in 1769
The electric force and his name was given to the electric
unit of power, the Watt.
-Benjamin Franklin
Proved that lightning and the spark from -ANDRE MARIE AMPERE
amber were one and the same thing. A French mathematician who devoted
himself to the study of electricity and
Franklin Fastened an iron spike to a silken magnetism, was the first to explain
kite, which he Flew during a thunderstorm, the electro-dynamic theory. A
while holding the end of the kite string by permanent memorial to Ampere is the
an iron key. use of his name for the unit of electric
current.
The experiment prove franklins Theory ,
but was extremely dangerous he could -GEORGE OHM
easily have Been killed
George Simon Ohm, a German
mathematician and physicist, was a
-Galvani and volta college teacher in Cologne when in
Luigi galvani, an Italian professor of
1827 he published, “the Galvanic
medicine found that when the leg of a
dead frog was dodge by a metal knife, the Circuit Investigated Mathematically”.
leg twitched violently. Galvani thought that His name has been given to the unit of
the muscles of the frog must contain electrical resistance.
BASIC ELECTRICAL IDEAS & UNITS realized that the main factors in
Galvani’s discovery were the two
different metals the steel knife and the
ELECTRICITY tin plate upon which the frog was
Form of energy lying.
Greatest discovers of man Come From Volta showed that when moisture
the greek word ” ELECTRON” means comes between two different metals,
amber. electricity is created.
Electricity all about electrons, This led him to invent the first
electric battery, the voltaic pile,
STATIC ELECTRICITY – involves which he made from thin sheets of
electrons that are moved from one place to copper and zinc separated by moist
another, usually by rubbing or brushing. pasteboard.
CUREENT ELECTRICITY – Involves the -MICHAEL FARADAY
flow of electrons in a conductor The credit for generating electric
current on a practical scale goes to the
famous English scientist, Michael
“FAMOUS CONTRIBUTION ABOUT Faraday.
ELECTRICITY” Faraday found the solution. Electricity
could be produced through
1. William Gilbert Magnetism by motion. He
2. Benjamin Franklin discovered that when a magnet was
3. Galvani and Volta moved inside a coil of copper wire, a
4. Michael faraday tiny electric current flows through the
wire.
5. James watt
6. Andre Marie ampere
-JAMES WATT
7. George ohm
James Watt, the Scottish inventor of
the steam condensing engine, was
-William Gilbert: born in 1736. His improvements to
father of electricity steam engines were patented over a
The lectric attraction period of 15 years, starting in 1769
The electric force and his name was given to the electric
unit of power, the Watt.
-Benjamin Franklin
Proved that lightning and the spark from -ANDRE MARIE AMPERE
amber were one and the same thing. A French mathematician who devoted
himself to the study of electricity and
Franklin Fastened an iron spike to a silken magnetism, was the first to explain
kite, which he Flew during a thunderstorm, the electro-dynamic theory. A
while holding the end of the kite string by permanent memorial to Ampere is the
an iron key. use of his name for the unit of electric
current.
The experiment prove franklins Theory ,
but was extremely dangerous he could -GEORGE OHM
easily have Been killed
George Simon Ohm, a German
mathematician and physicist, was a
-Galvani and volta college teacher in Cologne when in
Luigi galvani, an Italian professor of
1827 he published, “the Galvanic
medicine found that when the leg of a
dead frog was dodge by a metal knife, the Circuit Investigated Mathematically”.
leg twitched violently. Galvani thought that His name has been given to the unit of
the muscles of the frog must contain electrical resistance.
