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Of course there was electricity. Static electricity, lightning, and so on. Lightning strikes often started dry wood on fire . . . the people would pick up burning pieces of wood, and save them in a certain way to start campfires later on.

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Electricity was discovered, not invented, discovered 600 BC in Greece

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Yes, there was electricity in 1856.

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