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Benjamin Franklin proved that static electricity and lightning were the same (the nature of electricity) by tying a key onto a kite during a storm.
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Alessandro Volta invented the electric battery, this invention helped build up electrochemistry
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Micheal Faraday incented the first electric motor by converting electric energy to mechanical energy.
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Samuel Morse invented the first telegraph by using a wire that transmits signals through it.
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Joseph Henry invented the electrical relay, which sends electrical currents through long distances such as a telephone pole.
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Thomas Edison invented the incadescent lightbulb.
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James Blyth invented the first electricity generating turbine
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Charles Brush invntted the first wind turbine used to conduct electricity
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Henry Becquerel discovered the use of solar power by observing that electricity was being produced from the sun while conducting an experiment with an electrolytic cell.
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Piero Ginori Conti invented the first geothermal electric power plant.
