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world builders

electricity: 1600-1900

 

Otto von Guericke
Benjamin Franklin
Alessandro Volta

The early experimenters pave the way. Two centuries of tinkering yields the battery.

 

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.