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Uhm, ever hear of Ben Franklin? He flew a kite in a lightening storm and it was struck and voila! Electricity. Then Thomas Edison invented the lightbulb. Of course, there was a lot more to it. But if you have to ask if it's an invention, you should be reading some history on how it became invented.

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