proving static electricity and lightning were one and the same. However, it was by no means when this phenomenon was first "discovered." Little did Franklin know that there would eventually be a ...

Charles-Augustin de Coulomb discovered, in his experiments ... Initially, the first execution by electricity was to be carried out using Thomson-Houston generators. The company got wind of this ...

In 1832, William Sturgeon invented the first electric motor that could power a machine. Thomas Davenport patented a direct-current (DC) electric motor in 1837. The rechargeable lead-acid battery ...

The advent of the electric starter (invented by Charles Kettering at Dayton Engineering, first for the 1912 Cadillac) did away with the hand-crank problem for gas cars once it spread through the ...

And a new invention—the automobile—seemed to be the answer. When the city's very first motorized taxicab ... The cabs were electric vehicles. Produced by the straight forwardly named Electric ...