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The
historical Revolution in electrical engineering
can be attributed, in part, to the work and
discoveries of the followin people:
1- Charles
Augustin de Coulomb (1736-1806)
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Charles
Augustin Coulomb was born
in Angoulême, France on June
14, 1736. He was an engineer and physicist
best known for the formulation of
Coulomb's Law. His name is asssociated
with the unit of charge. |
2 - Georg Simon Ohm (1787-1854)
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Georg
Simon Ohm a German physicist
born in Erlangen, Bavaria, on March
16, 1787. He was a mathematician.
Ohm investigated the fundamental relationship
between voltage, current, and resitance.
These fundamental relationships are
of such great importance, that they
represent the true beginning of electrical
circuit analysis. His name is used
to represent the unit of resistance. |
3 - Alessandro
Volta (1745-1827)
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Count Alessandro Volta
was born in Como, Italy, into a noble
family. He was a physicist. Volta
discovered the electric battery. The
unit of voltage is named after him. |
4-André-Marie
Ampère (1775-1836)
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André-Marie Ampère
was born in Lyon, France, on January
20, 1775. He was a mathematician,
chemist, and physicist. Ampère
experimentally quantified the relationship
between electric current and the magnetic
field. The unit of electric current
is named after him. |
5 - James Watt
(1736-1819)
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James
Watt was born in Greenock,
Scotland, on January 19, 1736. He
was a mechanical engineer, renowned
for his improvements of the steam
engine. His name is used to represent
the unit of power. |
6 - Micheal
Faraday (1791-1867)
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Micheal Faraday was
born in Newington Butts, near London,
on September 22, 1791. He demonstrated
electromagnetic induction in 1831.
His electric transformer and electromagnetic
generator marked the beginning of
the age of electric power. His name
is used to represent the unit of capacitance. |
7 - Joseph Henry (1797-1867)
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American physicist Joseph
Henry was born in Albany,
New York, on December 17, 1797. Henry
discovered self induction around 1831.
His name is associated with the unit
of inductance. |
8 - Thomas
A. Edison (1847-1931)
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Thomas A. Edison
was born in Alva, Ohio, on February
11, 1847. He profoundly influenced
modern life through inventions such
as the incandescent light bulb, the
phonograph, and the motion picture
camera. During his lifetime, he acquired
1,093 patents, and marketed many of
his inventions to the public. |
9 - Gustav
Robert Kirchhoff (1825-1887)
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Gustav Robert Kirchhoff
was born in Königsberg, Prussia
(now Kaliningrad, Russia) on March
12, 1824. He was one of the foremost
physicists of the 19th century, and
is remembered as one of the founders
of the science of spectroscopy. He
is also known for Kirchoff's laws,
formulated in 1845 while he was still
a student, which refer to the currents
and electromotive forces in electrical
circuits. |
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