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From the Greek, William Gilbert invented the term electricity.
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Charles discovered that electricity has 2 forms. Later, Ben Franklin and Ebenezer Kinnersley changed the name of those forms to positive and negative.
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Benjamin initiated experimenting electricity in the world through static charges in the air.
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Benjamin uses a lightening rod to show that lightning is a type of electricity.
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He measured the power applied by a horse drawing rubbish up an old mind shaft and found it amounted to almost 22,000 featuring-lbs per minute.
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He created the first battery and shows that electricity can be transmitted or travel through wires.
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The 1st energy company ever opens in the US.
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Michael Faraday creates the 1st electric motor.
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the first electric motors are made for factories.
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Thomas Edison designed many small electric stations and were developed in the US.
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He believed in a world where poles and power lines do not exist. people called him "a genius."
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Most people in the US living in cities or urban areas and 10% of farms were supplied with electricity.
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The EPA was created for purposes of protecting our planet and make the world more green.