On Tuesday, March 7, 2017 at 5:44:26 AM UTC-10, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2017-03-07 10:14 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> > On 3/7/2017 9:23 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
> >> On 2017-03-06 11:34 PM, dsi1 wrote:
> >>> On Monday, March 6, 2017 at 8:53:25 AM UTC-10, Janet wrote:
> >>
> >>>> So you clearly implied that electricians' wiring work was a pretty
> >>>> good gig since before the Victorian age.
> >>>>
> >>>> Janet UK
> >>>
> >>> I clearly did not. Don't make connections that are not there. You
> >>> could have asked for clarification but you blew your chance. My point
> >>> was that even in this day an age, we still need to have electricity
> >>> and water connected to our house it the same way that it was done
> >>> since the beginning.
> >>
> >> From the beginning of what?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> That is remarkable. A hundred or two hundred
> >>> years from now, we'll still be using electric wire and pipe. For the
> >>> foreseeable future i.e., the electrician will have a steady job.
> >>
> >> If we had to trace the history of the electrical trades, what would be
> >> the starting date?
> >>
> >
> > Does lightening count?
>
>
> Benjamin Franklin was our first electrical foreman, or does the credit
> go to the ancient Greeks who discovered static electricity?

The first scientist to study conduction was Stephen Gray but people may have utilized electricity 2000 years before that.

http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/my...ent-batteries/