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What year was electricity invented

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Electricity was discovered by Ben Franklin in June of 1752 when he flew a kite into a thunderstorm and generated an electric shock

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Source: Benjamin Franklin and Electricity | sln.fi.edu

Description: His famous stormy kite flight in June of 1752 led him to develop many of the terms that we still use today when we talk about electricity: battery, conductor, condenser, charge, discharge, uncharged, negative, minus, plus, electric shock, and electrician.

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No one invented electricity, but scientists did not make great progress in understanding electricity until the 1700s.

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Electricity was never "invented," because it occurs naturally. It has been used in different ways since as early as 900BC. ChaCha!

May 13 2009, 08:38pm | Source: electricity history | www.electricityforum.com

In 600 B.C., Thales of Miletus wrote about amber becoming charged by rubbing(he was describing what we call static electricity).

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