Scientists and what they did
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- Benjamin Franklin
- experimented with electricity, discovered static electricity (electric spider) and attracting and repelling of particles
- copper and zinc
- voltaic pile alternates between these two metals with a pad of liquid in between each one
- unbalanced charge
- when an object does not have an equal amount of protons and electrons
- Hans christian Oersted
- created relationship between electricity and magnetism
- Thomas Edison
- improved telephone, invented phonograph, created the electric fuse and electric light bulb
- Luigi Galvani
- came up with "animal electricity"
- Alessandro Volta
- created first battery called voltaic pile and the volt was named after him
- particles
- small parts that make up atoms
- Michael Faraday
- worked on changing magnetism to electricity
- galvanometer
- current carrying wire wrapped around a compass which makes the magnetic needle work
- Andre Marie Ampere
- created the galvanometer and the electromagnet, unit for current was named after him (ampere)