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The American scientist, Benjamin Franklin, added the plus (+) and minus (-) signs for the positive and negative charges. He also thought that electricity was a kind of fluid but, there was only one kind of fluid, not two. His theory was that objects with too much fluid would repel each other while others with too little fluid attracted one another. He also theorized that if an object with an excess of fluid touched another with too little fluid, they would share the fluid together. He also called objects with too much fluid positive and a object with too little, negative. In 1752 Ben preformed his well known experiment with the kite in a lighting storm. Franklin thought that the clouds themselves were charged and that lighting was a big electrical spark, fortunately for him, the lightning did not strike him, if it did, he probably would have died then. |
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A English scientist, Joseph Priestley, in 1767 explained the mathematical law that shows how oppositely charged objects attraction weakens with distance. In 1785, a French scientist named Charles Augustine de Coulomb, confirmed Priestley's law. Today we know it as Coulomb's law. Priestly should have applied for a copyright. |
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