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A German named Otto von Guericke did some of the first expirements with static electricity. He made a machine that could produce electricty.
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Stephen gray found that such things as silk and other materials not conductable to electricity.
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Benjamin Franklin prestented the idea to people that electricity could have positive and negative elements
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Alessandro Volta develop the first electric batterty in history. But it is nothing like the batteries we have today. But he did have a groundbreaking event in make electric batteries
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Michaek Faraday discovered magnetic induction with doing multiple expirements. He later made the generator to allow us to make electicity.
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Thomas Edison invented the lightbulb. Although he wasn't the first to figure out that electricity can make light but he figured out the best way to do it.
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Louis Latimer gets a patent on the first lightbulb with a carbon filament
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Heinrich Hertz discovers that elcetricity has waves and he learns how to measure them
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Henry Ford buids his first automobile. It was designed to run on ethonal.
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Russel Ohl invents the solar cell