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Then in 1988, Dimplex introduced the Optiflame, the first commercial electric fireplace. In 1995, Dimplex added a realistic wood-burning flame effect to their electric fireplaces to create the Prototypical Electric Fireplace we see today. Since then, technologies have advanced to make the electric fireplace more efficient, emit more heat, and become the choice way to warm homes around the world.
But other than that, there was little real progress until the English scientist William Gilbert in 1600 described the electrification of many substances and coined the term electricity from the Greek word for amber. As a result, Gilbert is called the father of modern electric power. In 1660, Otto von Guericke invented a crude machine for producing static electricity. It was a ball of sulfur, rotated by a crank with one hand and rubbed with the other.