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Technically, the first person to ever move made electricity, in the form of a static charge. The ancient Egyptians were aware of electric shocks from certain types of fish, and the Romans even used these fish for a type of therapy. Thales of Miletus, an ancient Greek scientists, researched electricity around 600 BCE, and it's possible the ancients in the Middle East constructed rudimentary batteries before the Common Era. The first large steps forward into understanding electricity were in the 17th and 18th centuries, with such scientists and philosophers as Benjamin Franklin. Around this time electrostatic machines and early batteries started coming into use for experimental purposes, so this is probably the first modern "making" of electricity.

Meanwhile, lightning was in existence on Earth billions of years ago, so we cannot say that we were the first to invent or make it, but rather the first to understand and harness it.

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