Question

Who was the inventor of electricity?
1. Newton
2. Leonardo da Vinci
3. Vikings
4. Benjamin Franklin

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 4 : Benjamin Franklin

The correct answer is Benjamin Franklin.

• Benjamin Franklin conducted extensive research in electricity, selling his possessions to fund his work.
  • In June 1752 he is reputed to have attached a metal key to the bottom of a dampened kite string and flown the kite in a storm-threatened sky.

• Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and motion of matter that has a property of electric charge.
  • Electricity is related to magnetism, both being part of the phenomenon of electromagnetism, as described by Maxwell's equations.
  • Various common phenomena are related to electricity, including lightning, static electricity, electric heating, electric discharges.