When was electricity discovered?

SiegeTank55

"Benjamin Franklin, however, is credited to have discovered electricity through his well-known experiment of flying a kite during a thunderstorm." Yet, "The invention of electricity dates back to 600 BC when Thales of Miletus wrote about the charging of amber on rubbing it. This was, what we now call as the static electricity." http://www.buzzle.com/articles/history-of-electricity-when-was-electricity-invented.html Jan 10 11, 6:06 PM

rickcarufel

The ancient Greeks knew of the properties of static electricity. Alternating Current, the electricity we commonly use was invented by Tesla in the 1880's Jan 10 11, 7:19 PM

star_gazer

Electricity was discovered by our earliest ancestors when they first observed lightning. http://www.connecttoremotesupport.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/lightning1.jpg Jan 11 11, 12:09 AM

looney_tunes

Electricity as we know it was not discovered by any one person. Many people made relevant observations and pieced together an understanding of the phenomena associated with electricity. Earliest humans would have been aware of static electricity shocks and lightning, although they wouldn't have connected them - that was the achievement of Ben Franklin. It took many more people to develop our current model of electrical phenomena, and no one of them can properly be singled out as the 'discoverer of electricity'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity#History Jan 12 11, 12:51 AM