The inventor of electricity that we use today was originally invented by Nikola Tesla.
Nikola Tesla is the inventor of the alternating current AC motor and the AC electrical system.
However electricity has been around for many years but only in forms such as lightning and magnetism but it wasn't until someone discovered that moving a magnet between coils of wire could create electricity.
Michael Faraday created the DC generator which was first used for electricity and then the AC generator was later invented.
One of the first dynamo generators was built by Hippolyte Pixii in 1832.
The dynamo was the first electrical generator capable of delivering power for industry.
The Woolrich Electrical Generator of 1844, now in Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum, is the earliest electrical generator used in an industrial process.
Thomas Edison also invented and developed an electric generator to power his light bulb.
In order to develop a successful incandescent lamp, Edison had to design an entire electrical system, which he modeled after the gas lighting systems used in large cities.
In addition to these components, Edison also had to design an electrical generator and the network it powered.
So several people are credited for creating and inventing the electricity we use today.
In electricity generation, a generator is a device that converts motive power into electrical power for use in an external circuit.
Sources of mechanical energy include steam turbines, gas turbines, water turbines, internal combustion engines, wind turbines and even hand cranks.
Electric generators work on the principle of electromagnetic induction.
A conductor coil (a copper coil tightly wound onto a metal core) is rotated rapidly between the poles of a horseshoe type magnet.
The magnetic field will interfere with the electrons in the conductor to induce a flow of electric current inside it.