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By tying a key onto a kite string during a storm, Ben Franklin , proved that static electricity and lightning were the same.
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Luigi Galvani discovered bioelectricity. Showed that nerve cells passing signals to muscles is a form of electricity.
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First electric battery invented by Alessandro Volta. The “volt” is named in his honor.
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Generation of energy in a wire, producing an electric current. (Discovered by Michael Faraday.)
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Joseph Henry invented the electrical relay, used to send electrical currents long distances.
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Thomas Davenport invented the electric motor, an invention that is used in most electrical appliances today.
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Samuel Morse invented the electric telegraph, a machine that could send messages long distances across wire.
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Joseph Swan, an Englishman, invented the first incandescent lightbulb.
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Lakeside Power Plant in Wisconsin becomes the world’s first power plant to burn only pulverized coal.
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The first time that power was generated from a commercial nuclear plant, at Santa Susana, California.
