Who was the first person to discover electricity? NOT BEN FRANKLIN?
The only two clues I was given are:
– Black man
– Discovered BEFORE Christ
Here’s my challenge! I hope someone can help…
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Thales, a Greek, found that when amber was rubbed with silk it attracted feathers and other light objects. He had discovered static electricity. The Greek word for amber is ectron, from which we get ectricity and ectronics.
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6 years ago
Ancient Egypt had Electricity before Greece was even thought of. No single person can be credited for the discovery, but it definitely was not Benjamin Franklin.
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7 years ago
No way is there one person who ‘discovered’ electricity. But, no it wasn’t Ben Franklin.
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Thomas Edison
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Roman sub-warrior, Claudius V. Watt in 552BC, while wearing his silk neck-scarf, it accidentally brushed across his metal sword causing a strong sour, lemony tingle in his mouth. Upon further experimenting he discovered if he did this at night there was a small electrostatic spark generated at the source. He made note of it to his general and was one of the reasons the Roman warriors changed their scarves to a cotton.
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Thales of Miletus
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Thales. An ancient Greek, it was actually static electricity, 600BC.
Hope that helps!
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only person i could think of was Ben’s apprentice
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a cave man who was struck by lightening?
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in 1800/Italian -born physicist /Alessandro Volta/do/ i /win
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