What was the first country to get electricity and how did we get it

Question: What was the first country to get electricity and how did we get it
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Asked by 554eneq23 to Graeme on 13 Mar 2019.
- Graeme Burt answered on 13 Mar 2019:
  
  It depends how you count it, every country had lightning, Italy got batteries first, I think the UK was the first to electrify using central power stations in Surrey. It was based off of the work of Faraday in generating electricty from moving wires in magnetic fields called induction

Question: What was the first country to get electricity and how did we get it