<P> Electricity would remain little more than an intellectual curiosity for millennia until 1600 , when the English scientist William Gilbert made a careful study of electricity and magnetism , distinguishing the lodestone effect from static electricity produced by rubbing amber . He coined the New Latin word electricus ( `` of amber '' or `` like amber '' , from ἤλεκτρον , elektron , the Greek word for `` amber '' ) to refer to the property of attracting small objects after being rubbed . This association gave rise to the English words `` electric '' and `` electricity '' , which made their first appearance in print in Thomas Browne 's Pseudodoxia Epidemica of 1646 . </P>
<P> Electricity would remain little more than an intellectual curiosity for millennia until 1600 , when the English scientist William Gilbert made a careful study of electricity and magnetism , distinguishing the lodestone effect from static electricity produced by rubbing amber . He coined the New Latin word electricus ( `` of amber '' or `` like amber '' , from ἤλεκτρον , elektron , the Greek word for `` amber '' ) to refer to the property of attracting small objects after being rubbed . This association gave rise to the English words `` electric '' and `` electricity '' , which made their first appearance in print in Thomas Browne 's Pseudodoxia Epidemica of 1646 . </P>
who was the first person who discovered electricity
who was the first person who discovered electricity
William Gilbert
William Gilbert