d electricity derives from New Latin and ultimately Greek. It first appears in English in Francis Bacon's writings. Depending on context, the word MAY refer to "electric charge", "electric POWER" or "electric energy".The experiment with a pumped-out glass bulb, in which an electric circuit is completed by electrons emitted from a hot wire, is credited to the US inventor Thomas Alva EDISON (1847-1931), who patented it in 1883. The phenomenon is known as the "Edison effect" and many electronic devices use it nowadays.pls.pls mark as brainliest i rquest a lotExperiments with beams of negative particles were performed in Britain by Joseph John ("J.J.") Thomson, and led to his conclusion in 1897 that they consisted of lightweight particles with a negative electric charge, nowadays known as electrons. Thomson was awarded the 1906 Nobel Prize.The word "elektron" in Greek means amber, the yellow fossilized resin of evergreen trees, a "natural plastic material" already known to the ANCIENT Greeks. It was known that when amber was rubbed with dry cloth--producing what now one would call static electricity--it could ATTRACT light objects, such as bits of paper.