Possibly the earliest and nearest approach to the revelation of the personality of lightning, and electricity from any other source, is to be attributed to the Arabs, who before the fifteenth century had the Arabic word for lightning ra'ad applied to the electric ray. He begat the New Latin word electricus to allude to the property of attracting small articles after being rubbed. This association gave ascend to the English words "electric" and "electricity", which made their first appearance in print in Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica of 1646. Thales was erroneous in accepting the attraction was because of a magnetic impact, yet later science would demonstrate a connection among magnetism and electricity.
According to a controversial theory, may have had learning of electroplating, based on the 1936 disclosure of the Battery, which looks like a galvanic cell, however it is uncertain whether the artifact was electrical in nature. Later in the eighteenth century, Benjamin Franklin led broad research in electricity, offering his assets to subsidize his work. In June 1752 he is rumored to have attached a metal key to the bottom of a dampened kite string and flown the kite in a storm-threatened sky. A progression of sparks bouncing from the way to the back of his hand demonstrated that lightning was in fact electrical in nature. He also explained the apparently paradoxical behavior[16] of the Leyden jar as a device for storing large amounts of electrical charge as far as electricity comprising of both positive and negative charges.