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What is the name of one scientists who made a discovery about electricity and what was the discovery?
In 1672, Otto von Guericke (1602–1686), was the first human to knowingly generate electricity using a machine, and in 1729, Stephen Gray (1666–1736) demonstrated that electricity could be “transmitted” through metal filaments. The first electrical storage device was invented in 1745, the so-called “Leyden jar,” and in 1749, Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) demonstrated that lightning was electricity.