Date				Introduction			and Disclaimer
3000				Hieroglyphica of Horapollo			Electric Catfish in the Nile
600				Thales of Miletus			Attractive properties of amber	An easy experiment with amber
400				Plato			Compares Socrates to a Torpedo Fish
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100				Pliny			The medicinal magic of the Torpedo Fish
1600				William Gilbert		The Earth is a Big Magnet!
1650				Otto van Guericke		Electric Machines
1745				Ewald G. Von Kleist Leyden Jars		Pieter van Musschenbroek		Make your own Leyden Jar
1747				Benjamin Franklin		The Famous Kite Experiment
1769				Edward Bancroft		Electric Medicine
1782				Alesandro Volta		The Perpetual Electrophorus		Make your own electrophorus
1785				Charles Augustin de Coulomb		Measures electrostatic force
1791				Luigi Galvani		Theory of Animal Electricity
1800				Alesandro Volta		The Voltaic Pile (The 1st Battery)
1806				Humphry Davy		Electrochemistry
1819				Hans Christian Oersted		Electromagnetism
1820				Andre Marie Ampere		Laws of Electrodynamics
1827				Georg Simon Ohm		Ohm's Law
1831				Michael Faraday		Electomagnetic induction
1837				Joseph Henry		Self-Induction
1831				Carlo Matteucci		Measures electricity in muscle injury
1840				Wheatstone & Cooke		Samuel F.B. Morse	Invention of the Telegraph
1843				Emil Du Bois-Reymond		Electrically Measured Nerve Impulses
1864				James Clerk Maxwell		Mathematical Proof of Electromagnetism
1875				Alexander Graham Bell		Invention of the Telephone
1879				Thomas Alva Edison		Incadescent Lamp & many electric inventions
1887				Heinrich Rudolph Hertz		Transmission of electricity by electromagnetic (radio)waves
1888				Nicola Tesla		Alternating Currents, Induction motor
Today				Some final notes on: Electric Eels and WWII,			Electric Fish, Computers, and the Future

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