Introduction: This essay will explore the development of currently accepted ideas about the nature of electricity and magnetism. The article will begin in the ancient Greeks and continue to the present day. In the process of developing our modern understanding of electricity, magnetism, and electromagnetism, our predecessors conducted investigations that have now been accepted and replicated in modern classrooms. As new phenomena were observed, new explanations and conclusions were sought to explain. This has led to a number of documented scientific arguments and different points of view on the topic of the nature of electricity that will be discussed in this article. The topic of electricity is extremely broad, so the topics that will be described in this article will be divided into different sections of each area of ​​electricity. Properties of Charged Objects: The ancient Greeks were the first to discover the basic properties of electrically charged objects. The phenomenon is believed to have been a nuisance to ancient Greek spinners who used an amber distaff on their spindles when spinning wool. The distaff would become electrically charged and this would cause dust and lint to be attracted towards it. It turns out that the Greeks discovered that not only the amber distaff could be charged with numerous different materials and that all these charged bodies could attract other uncharged bodies. They demonstrated that no uncharged material was affected by the charged material, in fact this attraction was material specific. In De Magnete in 1600, William Gilbert (1544-1603), a London physician completed several investigations with an instrument called a versorio. A versorium is a collection of needles... in the center of the paper... teaching." Science & Education 10.4 (2001): 379-389.2. Gilbert, W.: 1958, De Magnete, translated by P. Fleury Mottelay in 1893 , Dover, Publications, Inc. New York.3 Whittacker, Sir Edmund: 1951, A History of the Theories of Aether & Electricity, Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd., London.4. D.: 1965, Foundations of Modern Physical Science, Addison-Wesley Publishing Co. Ltd., Reading5. Fritz "From the Leiden Jar to the Discovery of the Glass Electrode by Max Cremer Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry 15.1): 5-14.6. 'A new determination of e, N and related constants', Phil Mag. 34(199),1–19.7. NCCA Physics Leaving Certificate and Junior Science Certificate published by The Stationery Office to be purchased directly from: Government Publications Sales Office , Sun Alliance House, Molesworth Street, Dublin 2.