What was the 1st electric thing?

Question

What was the 1st electric thing?

Answer 1

The First electric thing?

Seriously?

Lightning  !!!!!!!

Answer 2

The Hellenists (Greeks) experimented with static electric machines about 300 BCE.

Electric circuits including telegraph circuits using electromagnets, date to about the 1830s, and originate in France and England.  The power source was chemical batteries.

The first electric generators, motors, light bulbs, etc. date to the late 19th century.

Answer 3

The first man-made electrical thing is a small battery, the remnants of which were found by archaeologists in the Middle-East a couple of decades ago.

Thousands of years old, it is speculated that the small electrical current it generated may have been used in an early form of electro-plating metals, possibly for jewelery.

Answer 4

Electricity! And The light bulb!

Answer 5

Michael Faraday experimented with machines that could generate small amounts of electricity in the 1820's. Primitive lead-acid batteries existed before then.

If you mean the first electric train: the first experimental electric railway in the world is attributed to Thomas Davenport of Vermont, U.S.A., who exhibited a small railway operated by a miniature electric motor in 1835.

Answer 6

I think it was the Edison Bulb (Light)

Answer 7

the light bulb.

Answer 8

trains!!!!

Answer 9

The first electric "thing" was a static generator with which Tesla demonstrated the effects of electricity.