In 1600, Williams Gilbert wrote a book called “De Magnete, it describe the experiments with a model of Earth.Which helped conclude that the earth is magnetic, what is why the compass point north. Also, he studied the static electricity, describing it as “ electricus”, from which the words electricity and electric were created. In 1663, Otto von Guericke created a machine that built electrical sparks. Which came from rotating a sulfur sphere made of a glass. Every time the ball rotated a spark was formed inside the globe. Same as Guericke, Benjamin Franklin’s experiment of a key attached to a kite proved that lightning was electricity. He also found out that charges were transferred, rather than just being made. Which helped to create the Law
