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Contrary to popular belief, electricity was not discovered by Benjamin Franklin. Franklin may have done experiments with electricity, however it was a well known phenomenon long before Franklin entered the picture.
Unfortunately, the name of the person who discovered electricity is forever lost to history, prehistory actually. There is evidence and speculation that the ancient Egyptians may have used various forms of wet cell batteries, and the debate rolls on over the purpose and use of the Baghdad Batteries. Both predate Franklin and contemporary uses of electricity by 1.5 to 3 millennia.
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No-one 'discovered' electricity. Our present knowledge of electricity is the accumulation of the work of thousands of scientists over several centuries.
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Why was electricity invented?
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Discovered by Ben then created
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we have no light! when electricity is not discovered!
