Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin harnessed electricity in June of 1752. He did this during his experiment with a key tied to a kite.
Egyptians did not know about electricity at all. They never did.
The electromechanical age was from 1840 to 1940. During this time period, the key advance was finding ways to harness electricity.
The ancient Greeks discovered electricity in 600 BC
No, electricity was around long before him. Benjamin Franklin is commonly accredited to be the first man to define and harness electricity.
Benjamin Franklin was the first person to prove that lightning is a form of electricity.
Benjamin Franklin was the first person to discover electricity as he did the kite experiment, and was the first person to use the terms positive and negetive charge.
Albert Einstein was no narnessing electric. It was understanding the relationship of Energy to matter.
The first person to experiment with electricity is considered to be William Gilbert, an English scientist who conducted experiments on electricity and magnetism in the late 16th century. He is often credited with laying the foundation for the study of electricity as a scientific field.
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He actually figured out how to harness it.
A light bulb is not a source of electricity. It is a device used to harness electricity to provide light.
Benjamin Franklin harnessed electricity in June of 1752. He did this during his experiment with a key tied to a kite.
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.