When was electricity invented?

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	Answer given 411 days 18 hours ago. Answer Rated 100% complete. 600 B.C. Thales of Miletus wrote about amber becoming charged by rubbing, what is called static electricity today. 1600 English scientist, William Gilbert first used the word "electricity" translating the Greek word for amber in to English 1660 Machine invented by Otto von Guericke that produced static electricity. 1675 Robert Boyle discovered electric forces transmitted through a vacuum, observed attraction and repulsion. 1729 Stephen Gray's conduction of electricity discovery. 1733 Charles Francois du Fay discovered electricity comes in two forms, he called these, resinous(-)and vitreous(+). Benjamin Franklin and Ebenezer Kinnersley renamed the discovery as positive and negative. 1752 Benjamin Franklin invents the lightening rod. Demonstrations proved lightning was electricity. ► oz^(117,009) (Comment on this)


	Answer given 220 days 16 hours ago. Rated Not an answer. i dont kwow!!!and I wish somebody could tell meee!!!! ► Anonymous (Comment on this)


	Answer given 171 days 13 hours ago. Rated Advice / Opinion. 1900 ► Anonymous (Comment on this)


	Answer given 119 days 6 hours ago. Rated Not an answer by Jan^(31,133). when was earth discovered? ► Anonymous (Comment on this)

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