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Benjamin Franklin Thomas Edison Nikola Tesla?

Two of my friends were having a debate of Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison my one friend said Nikola Tesla discovered electricity and Thomas Edison stole all of his ideas my other friend replied wasn’t Nikola Tesla six years old in Europe when electricity was discovered. I replied wasn’t it Benjamin Franklin who first discovered electricity. Who is the real father of electricity.

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  • Anonymous
    1 year ago

     None of them discovered electricity.  Franklin supposedly demonstrated that lightning is electricity, but he didn't discover electricity and was just one of a large number of scientists doing experiments in electricity in the 18th century.

  • Anonymous
    1 year ago

    Yes, they should have formed a band with that name. They would've been more popular than Crosby Stills Nash Young Cooper Mustaine Hetfield

  • Anonymous
    1 year ago

    EDISON NEVER INVENTED ANYTHING

    he stole Plagerised Purchased everything and had friends he paid in the US and Canadian Patents office

    EDISON did NOT Invent the Light Bulb telegraph or the

    Emile Berliner phonograph

    Joseph Swan Invented the Light Bulb

    In 1850, English chemist Joseph Swan tackled the cost-effectiveness problem of previous inventors and by 1860 he had developed a light bulb that used carbonized paper filaments in place of ones made of platinum. Swan received a patent in the United Kingdom in 1878, and in February 1879 he demonstrated a working lamp in a lecture in Newcastle, England, according to the Smithsonian Institution. Like earlier renditions of the light bulb, Swan's filaments were placed in a vacuum tube to minimize their exposure to oxygen, extending their lifespan. Unfortunately for Swan, the vacuum pumps of his day were not efficient as they are now,

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