| A | B |
| 1600 | William Gilbert invented the term electricity |
| 1752 | Ben Franklin proved lighting is a form of electricity |
| 1780 | Luigi Galvani discovered that dead frog legs moved with electricity |
| 600 bc | Thales discovered static electricity |
| 1820 | Hans Christian Oersted discovered magnetic fields were caused by electricity |
| 1831 | The first telegraph machine was made |
| 2000 | The world's first commercial wave power station |
| 1870 | Thomas Edison Built a dc electric generator |
| 1876 | Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone |
| 1895 | Discovery of X-rays |
| 1936 | John Logie Baired pioneered the television |
| 1956 | The first large scale nuclear power station. |
| 1838 | Sam Morse invented Morse Code |