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When was the photovoltaic cell invented?

1839
1883
1946
1958
The first experimental photovoltaic cell has been built by Edmund Becquerel, French physicist aged 19 at the time, in his father garage in 1839. In 1883 Charles Fritts created the first solid state cell.
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the Sun
the Moon
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in March
in June
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