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Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.

I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton.

When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.

For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing.

Calculus, the electrical battery, the telephone, the steam engine, the radio - all these groundbreaking innovations were hit upon by multiple inventors working in parallel with no knowledge of one another.

Ampere was the Newton of Electricity.

I was reading Plato's 'The Republic' at age 18, and I can't account fully the electricity that had for me.

One of the most powerful scientific tools ever invented is the telephone.

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.