Copper, wire and "Franklin found electricity"

SUMMARYCopper, wire and "Franklin found electricity" (Nov 6, 2026; user drop: "COPPER IS THE KEY"). FRANKLIN DIDN'T FIND IT, Record: amber's pull (Greek elektron; Thales, about 600 BCE); Gilbert named electricus (1600); Guericke's static machine (about 1663); the Leyden jar stored charge (1745–46). Dalibard drew lightning down an iron rod at Marly-la-Ville on May 10, 1752, before Franklin's kite (June 1752). Franklin's kite was written up months later, and whether he flew it as told is Disputed. Record: Franklin was Grand Master of Pennsylvania's Masons (1734) and held enslaved people (runaway ads ran in his Pennsylvania Gazette). Record: Samuel Morse (telegraph, 1844) ran for New York mayor (1836) on the nativist "Native American" ticket and published a defense of slavery (1863), the same nativist current as Pike's Know-Nothings (P748, P774). ELECTRICITY ON THE BODY, Record: Egyptians depicted the electric catfish (about 2750 BCE); Scribonius Largus prescribed torpedo-ray shocks (46 CE). Venezuelan fishermen showed Humboldt how to tire electric eels with horses (1800); the land's people knew the eel's power first. COPPER, Record: West Mexican smiths drew copper wire for bells and ornaments (800–1500 CE). Lake Superior: thousands of ancient pits; at the Minesota Mine (1847–48) miners found a copper mass of about 6 tons the ancients had raised onto oak cribbing with stone tools (Whittlesey, Smithsonian 1863). Granville Woods's induction telegraph (P801)

OPEN (Tito: copper as the key to old wire tech)test for ancient copper wire in circuits, coils wound for current, electrolysis residues on copper and iron, and plating (compare the disputed Baghdad battery, oldtech). Added 6 rows to oldtech (121).