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Electricity what a fascinating topic and how it is an important resource in our daily and modern living. Electricity is the foundation for many of daily appliances and is needed rigorously in order for us as a people to survive. Electricity is needed in everything we do and has been a necessity in the growth of society. Electricity is an important element not only in the uses that it offers, but it also helps us to understand our world and the universe we live in. Now I will further elaborate about the history of electricity and discuss a bit about where electricity was actually first discovered.

Electricity has been used by many different men in many different ways. It actually first started back in Greece. #It started back in Greece around about six centuries ago, when it was observed in an amber rod rubbed with a cloth or a fur attracted light objects such as feathers and bits of straw. #The name of the man who made this remarkable discovery is Thales of Miletus. So the Greeks name for amber is elektron, William Gilbert, physician to Queen Elizabeth I, called the force exerted by the amber vis elctrica which is a force that tells apart from the much weaker force of gravitation. So through this remarkable discovery another man named Otto Von Guericke invented the static electric generator in 1675, meanwhile another man now invented a current generator whose name was Alosio Galvani in 1780. But around this period when things that obtained electricity were being invented, most people found it to be of little use. Basically we proceed through the time for approximately 60 years when a scientist by the name of Samuel Morse invented the telegraph which was used as a means of communication to people far away and he made it public in the 1840s. Later, things began

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