Who discovered electricity?

Who discovered electricity?

Answer #1

Source: http://www.wisegeek.com/who-discovered-electricity.htm “In 1800, Italian-born physicist Alessandro Volta constructed the voltaic pile, later known as the electric battery, the first device to produce a steady electric current. It was Volta, not Franklin, who discovered that certain chemical reactions could produce electricity. Volta also created the first transmission of electricity by linking positively-charged and negatively-charged connectors and driving an electrical charge, or voltage, through them. “

Answer #2

It was Alessandro Volta, and not Benjamin Franklin who discovered electricity, Franklin only proved the relationship between electricity and lightning.

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