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Who and how discovered electricity?
Question Date: 2015-06-25
Answer 1:

Electricity was described in small amounts by different people over the millennia. The first concentrated scientific work was done by William Gilbert around 1600. However, various kinds of electrical activity had been known much earlier.



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