What are three things that inspired Thomas Jefferson to make electricity?
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I think you're confusing Thomas Jefferson with Benjamin Franklin.\n\nAnd he didn't "make" electricity, per sey, but there were significant events which prompted his interests in researching and attempting to reproduce electricity in a controlled fashion.\n\nThe main two are lightning bolts and static shock.  While technically, these are two aspects of friction and only differ in magnitude, he considered them separate entities as one was generated by air (gaseous material) and the other by tangible objects (solid material).  The third influence in his research and discovery stems back to when he was stung by a jellyfish in his youth and pondered how so simple a creature could harness such a perplexing force.
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Most likely Energy in Joules. We need a context though.
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It is used to generate electricity.
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Benjamin Franklin realized that electrical charges came in two types, which he called positive and negative. \n\nRubbing smooth wool over rough wax produces a huge static electric charge on both the wax and the wool, and the charge can be released in the form of a spark. It was clear that electricity was flowing from one to the other, but which way? Franklin couldn't tell, so he guessed, assigning a "positive" electric charge to the wax and the "negative" electric charge to the wool. \n\nIt turned out he was wrong, but it took over a century to discover that.
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you probably need history of electricity. lte me give you a brief one.\nFrom the writings of Thales of Miletus it appears that Westerners knew as long ago as 600 B.C. that amber becomes charged by rubbing. There was little real progress until the English scientist William Gilbert in 1600 described the electrification of many substances and coined the term electricity from the Greek word for amber. As a result, Gilbert is called the father of modern electricity. In 1660 Otto von Guericke invented a crude machine for producing static electricity. It was a ball of sulfur, rotated by a crank with one hand and rubbed with the other. Successors, such as Francis Hauksbee, made improvements that provided experimenters with a ready source of static electricity. Today's highly developed descendant of these early machines is the Van de Graaf generator, which is sometimes used as a particle accelerator. Robert Boyle realized that attraction and repulsion were mutual and that electric force was transmitted through a vacuum (c.1675). Stephen Gray distinguished between conductors and nonconductors (1729). C. F. Du Fay recognized two kinds of electricity, which Benjamin Franklin and Ebenezer Kinnersley of Philadelphia later named positive and negative.\n\nThe Leyden Jar and the Quantitative Era\n\nProgress quickened after the Leyden jar was invented in 1745 by Pieter van Musschenbroek. The Leyden jar stored static electricity, which could be discharged all at once. In 1747 William Watson discharged a Leyden jar through a circuit, and comprehension of the current and circuit started a new field of experimentation. Henry Cavendish, by measuring the conductivity of materials (he compared the simultaneous shocks he received by discharging Leyden jars through the materials), and Charles A. Coulomb, by expressing mathematically the attraction of electrified bodies, began the quantitative study of electricity.\n\nA new interest in current began with the invention of the battery. Luigi Galvani had noticed (1786) that a discharge of static electricity made a frog's leg jerk. Consequent experimentation produced what was a simple electron cell using the fluids of the leg as an electrolyte and the muscle as a circuit and indicator. Galvani thought the leg supplied electricity, but Alessandro Volta thought otherwise, and he built the voltaic pile, an early type of battery, as proof. Continuous current from batteries smoothed the way for the discovery of G. S. Ohm's law (pub. 1827), relating current, voltage (electromotelinks" href="/encyclopedia/O/Ohmslaw.html">Ohm's law), and of J. P. Joule's law of electrical heating (pub. 1841). Ohm's law and the rules discovered later by G. R. Kirchhoff regarding the sum of the currents and the sum of the voltages in a circuit (see Kirchhoff's laws) are the basic means of making circuit calculations\nyou do need advanced studying in this but i think this will help u anywhere. best of luck!!
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The traffic light\nGas masks (both by Garrett Morgan)\n\nLong haul refrigeration systems on trucks.\n\nThe ironing board.\n\nOpen heart surgery.\n\nStreet sweeper trucks.\n\nThe electronic resistor (for which help make electronics possible)\n\nThe filament in a lightbulb (for which was Edison's toughest feat)\n\nThe WC (restroom) on trains.\n\nModern music.\n\nThe super soaker.\n\nThe jenny coupler (it links railroad cars, a dangerous task for which is how it's black inventor Andrew Beard, lost his leg.)\n\nCarver invented peanut butter, adhesives, bleach, chili sauce, ink, instant coffee, linoleum, mayonnaise, paper, plastic, pavement, shaving cream, talcum powder and more.\n\nMatzeliger invented an automatic method for lasting shoes, which made the mass production of affordable shoes possible.\n\n\nDr. Charles Richard Drew invented the possibility of blood banks.\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------\n\nSo enjoy your affordable shoes, PB, music, anything electronic that you have, milk when you don't live near a dairy farm, your flat shirts, clean streets, incandescent lights, vacuum tubes... but don't say black people haven't done anything to make life more livable for you.
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Actually he never invented electricity he discovered and proved that a lightning storm is composed of electricity and led to breakthroughs by others in harnassing it. As for why he should be there most probably because of his immense contribution. He was the oldest statesman in his time, a renaissance man with multiple accomplishments as a scientists, who invented such gadgets as the bifocals, as a statesmen who represented the fledgling America in France and to ensure an alliance for France to go to war against England when it needed it most as well as to secure funds for the war. He was also the first few to propose secession and help in  convening the colonial governments to meet and agree to declare independence. His work as a printer as well also helped in spreading ther evolutionary word and in exposing the injustice the crown was imposing on the colony and though unsuccessful his efforts in England in representation of the colonies were equally important. All due he did more than any president to ensure the Americas would one day grow to its present state and prosper. Thus should he appear on the 100 dollar bill.
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No one invented electricity. It was discovered.\n\ntosmith
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George Westinghouse is primarily responsible for the modern power grids in the US.  Thomas Edison had built DC power distribution networks that continued in operation into the 1950's.
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electricity-light bulbs, televisions\nsteel constructioin-buildings, bridges\ninternal combustion engines-autos, lawn mowers
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electricity or power obtained from moving water\nmainly from dams and tide power plants
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electricity produced due to flow of charges/electrons
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Batteries consist of electrochemical devices such as one or more galvanic cells, fuel cells or flow cells. The earliest known artifacts that may have been batteries are the Baghdad Batteries, from some time between 250 BCE and 640 CE. The modern development of batteries started with the Voltaic pile developed by the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta in 1800. The worldwide battery industry generates US$48 billion in sales annually
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Nobody invented electricity - it is a naturally occuring phenomenon (for example - lightning) that has been around as long as Earth. Benjamin Franklin is often credited with discovering the properties of electricity (although this is probably a myth), and Thomas Edison invented the electric light.
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he did not invent electric light\n\nThe first electric light was made in 1800 by Humphry Davy, an English scientist. He experimented with electricity and invented an electric battery. When he connected wires to his battery and a piece of carbon, the carbon glowed, producing light. This is called an electric arc.\n\nMuch later, in 1860, the English physicist Sir Joseph Wilson Swan (1828-1914) was determined to devise a practical, long-lasting electric light. He found that a carbon paper filament worked well, but burned up quickly. In 1878, he demonstrated his new electric lamps in Newcastle, England.\n\nIn 1877, the American Charles Francis Brush manufactured some carbon arcs to light a public square in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. These arcs were used on a few streets, in a few large office buildings, and even some stores. Electric lights were only used by a few people.
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Johann Wolfgang!\n\nHe discovered furfural, worked on the use of platinum as a catalyst, and invented a lighter, known as Döbereiner's Lamp.\n\n:)
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Thomas Alva Edison did not invent Electricity. \n\nThomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman who developed many devices which greatly influenced life in the 20th century. \nHe was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production to the process of invention, and can therefore be credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory.\n\nHistory of electricity - \n\nThe ancient Greeks and Parthians knew of static electricity from rubbing objects against fur.\n\nThough Benjamin Franklin's famous "invention" of electricity by flying a kite in a thunderstorm turned out to be more fiction than fact, his theories on the relationship between lightning and static electricity sparked the interest of later scientists whose work provided the basis for modern electrical technology. Most notably these include Luigi Galvani (1737–1798), Alessandro Volta (1745-1827), Michael Faraday (1791–1867), André-Marie Ampère (1775–1836), and Georg Simon Ohm (1789-1854).