Hiraga Gennai was a Japanese man living in the Edo period. Born 1729 died 1779. He formally displayed an elekiter (an electrolastic generator) in 1776. An elekiter is a small box that generates electricity through creating friction , then stores the electricity. Gennai supposedly acquired his elekiter on his second trip to Nagasaki but apperantly his elekiter was originally from Holland.
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