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600 BC Thales of Miletus writes about amber becoming charged by rubbing - he was describing what we now call static electricity http://www.electricityforum.com/a-timeline-of-history-of-electricity.html
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1269 - Petrus Peregrinus of Picardy, Italy, discovers that natural spherical magnets (lodestones) align needles with lines of longitude pointing between two pole positions on the stone.
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in 1752 a man named benjermin franklin tied a key to the end of a kite and flew it when the electricity hit the kite string which was wet it gave him a shock and this was the beginning. http://www.enwin.com/kids/electricity/history.cfm
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An electrical telegraph was independently developed and patented in the United States in 1837 by Samuel Morse. His assistant, Alfred Vail, developed the Morse code signalling alphabet with Morse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_telegraph
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Throughout the next hundred years, many inventors and scientists tried to find a way to use electrical power to make light. In 1879, the American inventor Thomas Edison was finally able to produce a reliable, long-lasting electric light-bulb in his laboratory. http://www.enwin.com/kids/electricity/history.cfm
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