Re: We're gonna need a bigger board
"There must have been a very first static shock, and it perhaps it occurred within the span of written history."
Static shocks and ones administered from a battery certainly existed at the same time as writing, since they all existed in Sumerian, Babylonian and Egyptian times. Amber was considered to have mystical properties exactly because of it's ability to generate a large static charge. There's evidence of it being used in healing rituals,
Beer because they took brewing very seriously, drank it out through long fancy straws.
If you're in London, it's worth having a squiz at the stuff they've got on show at the British Museum (Of Stuff We Nicked).
Oh, technically lightning is a discharge from static, and we've been impressed with that for a long time :)
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