Otto von Guericke
Benjamin Franklin
Alessandro Volta
The early experimenters pave the way. Two centuries of tinkering yields the battery.
fleshmen
world builders
electricity: 1600-1900
Hans Orstead
Marie Ampere
Michael Faraday
Discovery of the relationship between magnetism and electric current led to inventions that would change industry.
James Clerk Maxwell
A class of one
Edison
Bell
Tesla
Developed the technologies that would shape the modern era. With royalties and fees, of course.
