Pieter van Musschenbroek 

(14 March 1692 – 19

September 1761) was a Dutch scientist. He was a
professor in Duisburg, Utrecht, and Leiden, where he
held positions in mathematics, philosophy, medicine,
and astronomy. He is credited with the invention of the
first capacitor in 1746: the Leyden jar

Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi, 1st Marquis of

Marconi FRSA (Italian: [ɡuʎˈʎɛlmo marˈkoːni]; 25 April
1874 – 20 July 1937) was an Italian inventor
and electrical engineer, known for his pioneering work
on long-distance radio transmission,[5] development
of Marconi's law, and a radio telegraph system..
Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio
Anastasio Volta, (born February 18,
1745, Como, Lombardy [Italy]—died
March 5, 1827, Como), Italian
physicist whose invention of the
electric battery provided the first
source of continuous current.

Michael Faraday, (born September

22, 1791, Newington, Surrey, England
—died August 25, 1867, Hampton
Court, Surrey),
English physicist and chemist whose
many experiments contributed
greatly to the understanding
of electromagnetism. His major
contribution, however, was in the
field of electricity and magnetism. He
was the first to produce an electric
current from a magnetic field,
invented the first electric
motor and dynamo, demonstrated the
relation between electricity
and chemical bonding, discovered the
effect of magnetism on light, and
discovered and named diamagnetism,
the peculiar behaviour of certain
substances in strong magnetic fields.
Alexander Graham Bell, (born
March 3, 1847, Edinburgh,
Scotland—died August 2, 1922,
Beinn Bhreagh, Cape Breton
Island, Nova Scotia, Canada),
Scottish-born American inventor,
scientist, and teacher of the deaf
whose foremost accomplishments
were the invention of
the telephone (1876) and the
refinement of
the phonograph (1886).

Charles-Augustin de Coulomb,
(born June 14, 1736, Angoulême,
France—died August 23, 1806, Paris),
French physicist best known for the
formulation of Coulomb’s law, which
states that the force between two
electrical charges is proportional to the
product of the charges and inversely
proportional to the square of the
distance between them. Coulombic
force is one of the principal forces
involved in atomic reactions.
Gustav Kirchhoff, in full Gustav
Robert Kirchhoff, (born March 12,
1824, Königsberg, Prussia [now
Kaliningrad, Russia]—died October
17, 1887, Berlin, Germany), German
physicist who, with the
chemist Robert Bunsen, firmly
established the theory of spectrum
analysis (a technique for chemical
analysis by analyzing the light emitted
by a heated material), which Kirchhoff
applied to determine
the composition of the Sun.

In 1845 Kirchhoff first

announced Kirchhoff’s laws, which
allow calculation of the currents,
voltages, and resistances of electrical
networks. Extending the theory of the
German physicist Georg Simon Ohm,
he generalized the equations describing current flow to the case of
electrical conductors in three dimensions. In further studies he
demonstrated that current flows through a conductor at the speed of
light.
James Clerk Maxwell, (born June 13, 1831, Edinburgh, Scotland—
died November 5, 1879,
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire,
England), Scottish physicist
best known for his formulation
of electromagnetic theory. The
concept of electromagnetic
radiation originated with
Maxwell, and
his field equations, based
on Michael Faraday’s
observations of the electric and
magnetic lines of force, paved
the way for Einstein’s special
theory of relativity, which
established the equivalence of
mass and energy.
Joseph Swan, in
full Sir Joseph Wilson
Swan, (born October 31,
1828, Sunderland,
Durham, England—died
May 27, 1914,
Warlingham, Surrey),
English physicist and
chemist who produced an
early electric
lightbulb and invented
the dry photographic
plate, an important
improvement
in photography and a
step in the development of modern photographic film.
Nikola Tesla, (born July 9/10, 1856,
Smiljan, Austrian Empire [now in Croatia]
—died January 7, 1943, New York, New
York, U.S.), Serbian American inventor and
engineer who discovered and patented the
rotating magnetic field, the basis of
most alternating-current machinery. He
also developed the three-phase system
of electric power transmission. He
immigrated to the United States in 1884
and sold the patent rights to his system of
alternating-current dynamos, transformers,
and motors to George Westinghouse. In
1891 he invented the Tesla coil,
an induction coil widely used in radio
technology.