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How electricity was invented |
| Answer» Benjamin Franklin decided to do a little experiment with lightning back in 1752. He thought that lightning was interesting and wanted to find out more about it. So Mr. Franklin did something very dangerous, that none of us should try. He took a kite outside during a thunderstorm, got the string of the kite wet, put a metal key at the end and then let the kite float up into the storm. What he discovered was that the electricity from the storm clouds came down the string, and he received an electrical shock.Thomas Edison was the first recorded inventor to produce a long-lasting electric light bulb, which he created in his laboratory in 1879. He kept experimenting with improving his invention, and by the end of the 1880s Thomas Edison was able to power a few city blocks through electrical stations towards the end of the 1880s. | |