Who was the first person to discover electricity? NOT BEN FRANKLIN?

Question:The only two clues I was given are:

- Black man
- Discovered BEFORE Christ

Here's my challenge! I hope someone can help...

Answers:
Thales, a Greek, found that when amber was rubbed with silk it attracted feathers and other light objects. He had discovered static electricity. The Greek word for amber is ectron, from which we get ectricity and ectronics.
Thomas Edison
Thales. An ancient Greek, it was actually static electricity, 600BC.

Hope that helps!
columb I think
a cave man who was struck by lightening?
idk cause thomas edison was the first one to put it to use ( in a lightbulb)
Thales of Miletus
in 1800/Italian -born physicist /Alessandro Volta/do/ i /win
only person i could think of was Ben's apprentice
Roman sub-warrior, Claudius V. Watt in 552BC, while wearing his silk neck-scarf, it accidentally brushed across his metal sword causing a strong sour, lemony tingle in his mouth. Upon further experimenting he discovered if he did this at night there was a small electrostatic spark generated at the source. He made note of it to his general and was one of the reasons the Roman warriors changed their scarves to a cotton.

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