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Who named Positive and Negative charges?


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  1. Benjamin Franklin in the year 1747 first coined the terms positive and negative charges.
  2. He was conducting his experiments on electricity and found that there are two types of electric charge exists which depends on the material on which they are rubbed.
  3. To explain these observations he named them positive and negative charges.

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