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Science Cram Kit 25-26
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| William Gilbert | coined the term "electricity" |
| Benjamin Franklin | Conducted many famous experiments with electricity, including his discoveries that lightning is electric and charge is conserved |
| J. J. Thomson | Discovered the electron |
| Charles Coulomb | Discovered the mathematical equation for electric forces |
| Lord Kelvin | Developed the three laws of thermodynamics |
| Alessandro Volta | Invented the first battery |
| Michael Faraday | Discovered and mathematically describes electromagnetic induction |
| Thomas Edison | Ofter credited with inventing the light bulb: campaigned for public adoption of DC to power cities |
| George Westinghouse | Campaigned for public adoption of AC to power cities |
| Nikola Tesla | Created many electric inventions, including the Tesla coil |
| Albert Einstein | Discovered that space, time, and the electromagnetic force are relative |
| James Joule | Studied the relationship between work and heat as two different forms of energy |
| Andre-Marie Ampere | Observed that two current-carrying wires can exert a force of each other; calculated the magnetic fields produced by objects |
| Heinrich Hertz | First came with the idea of wireless communication |
| Guglielmo Marconi | Invented the wireless telelgraph |