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Electricity was discovered not invented. Without it our lives would be more difficult though.
There are many key words to understand when discussing electricity. Electricity flows in a current. The unit of power of electricity is a watt which refers to the rate of work done. A volt is force at which electricity moves from its origin through a conductor and to the place of use.
Transmission lines.
No, has to be life-force. If vampires could just feed off of electricity there would be Godzilla sized vampires all over the place.
Lightbulb
Thomas Edison did not deal with first flights
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In Thomas Edison's workshop on October 19, 1879.
to generate electricity.
In 1888 the town of Reefton became the first place in New Zealand (and first in the Southern Hemisphere) to be lit with electricity. Wellington became the first city to have electricity in 1889. Reefton's electricity only arrived 6 years after it was installed in Kimberley, South Africa on 1 September 1882, making it the first place in the Southern Hemisphere to get electric lighting.
In 1891, Thomas Edison built a Kinetoscope, or peep-hole viewer
Yes there is, there are several places have been named after Edison, most notably the town of Edison, New Jersey.
Yes, it is.
Electricity was first used in practical applications in the late 19th century in the United States, primarily for light bulbs and telegraphy. The first widely known demonstration of electricity was by Benjamin Franklin with his kite experiment in 1752, showing the existence of electricity in lightning.
Other than the Tesla Coil, his most famous invention, he is also credited for inventing AC electricity, which is your every day wall-socket (his rival was Thomas Edison, who invented DC electricity, hence the band name AC/DC). Even though Gugliamo Marconi is given credit for inventing the radio, it was Tesla that introduced it in the first place
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