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Electricity Electricity is so present in our daily lives that we tend to think of it as a fundamental necessity. But do you know how it became possible? The first documented contact with electricity took place in ancient Greece when Thales of Miletus in the 5th century BC. saw that, after vigorously rubbing a small piece of amber, it acquired the property of attracting small particles. This phenomenon later became known as static electricity. Also, electricity owes its name to its Greek philosopher, as it derives from the Greek word elektron, which means amber.
Three centuries later, Theosphrates was the first to conduct a study of electricity, documenting various related phenomena. Then a century later, in 1752, American scientist Benjamin Franklin demonstrated that lightning is a phenomenon of electrical nature, a kind of giant spark. This observation, coupled with von Guericke's insights into sharp objects, enabled him to invent the lightning rod. It was a pointed pole that, placed on buildings or ships, protected them from the effects of electricity from clouds.
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