Los Idatha ebhaliweyo yeThales yaseMileto abaqinisekanga ngandlela ithile kodwa bathambekele ekubeni ikoloni yamaGrike yaseAsia Minor yazalwa kwisixeko saseMileto (624-546 BC). Wayengowokuqala ukuchaza ngokusengqiqweni oko kwakuthathwe ngaphambili njengentsomi. Nguye owacacisa "isicatshulwa esivela kwiintsomi ukuya kwilogo."
Umbane osetyenziselwa yonke into kunye neendleko kuphela zokuphakamisa iqhina, ufundisiwe waphuculwa ngamadoda amaninzi kwimbali, kodwa bonke bayavuma ukuba owokuqala ukufaka amandla kubukho balo mandla yayisisithandi sobulumko sokuqala saseNtshona, u-Greek Thales waseMileto .
Umbane ubusoloko ukho ungowendalo, umntu uye wawufumanisa kuphela kwaye wawusebenzisa. Umbane wendalo ubizwa ngokuba yi-static.
UThales waseMileto wayengumsunguli we Isikolo seIonia seFilosofi kunye nenye yezazi ezisixhenxe zaseGrisi.
Ufumanise ukuba xa athe wahlikihla intonga ye amber (fossilised resin) ngelaphu, watsala izinto ezikhaphukhaphu, ezinjengamagqabi omileyo, iintsiba, imisonto yelaphu, kodwa akazange afumanise iintlobo zeentlawulo, kodwa wayeqinisekile ukuba umbane ngowento ekhuhliweyo. UThales, weva ukuba lo mhlaba ungaphakathi kwe-amber.
Lo mbono ulula waba ngowokuqala ukufunyanwa ngombane.
Emva kwexesha Isithandi sobulumko esingumGrike uTheophrastus (374-287 BC) kurekhodwe isifundo sokuqala sombane xa wabona ukuba ezinye izinto zinamandla afanayo okutsala.
Kwaigama lombane livela kwigama lesiGrike ele elektron elithetha amber.
Ngexesha lamaXesha Aphakathi kwakungekho phando ngesayensi, kodwa ngo-1.600 AD i-English physicist kunye nogqirha uWilliam Gilbert wayifumana le propati kwimizimba eyahlukeneyo.