Timeline for Why is the charge of a proton positive? [duplicate]

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Oct 6, 2015 at 18:32	history	closed	John Rennie Kyle Kanos ACuriousMind♦ Qmechanic♦		Duplicate of Why is the charge naming convention wrong?, Who (and Why) started the "electrons are negative, protons are positive" convention? [duplicate]
Oct 6, 2015 at 18:32	history	edited	Qmechanic♦		edited tags
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Oct 6, 2015 at 18:32
Oct 6, 2015 at 13:55	comment	added	John Rennie		Possible duplicate of Who (and Why) started the "electrons are negative, protons are positive" convention?
Oct 6, 2015 at 13:28	comment	added	Jonas Greitemann		As a word of warning: while everybody agrees that the charge of the electron is negative, there is no agreement over whether the electron has charge $e$ (with $e<0$) or charge $-e$ with $e>0$.
Oct 6, 2015 at 13:25	comment	added	Omar Nagib		Positive and negative are just conventions. What is not a convention however is that electrons and protons have charges of opposite sign so that $q_{\text{electron}} q_{\text{proton}}<0$.
Oct 6, 2015 at 13:24	answer	added	Slereah		timeline score: 3
Oct 6, 2015 at 13:23	answer	added	Matt		timeline score: -2
Oct 6, 2015 at 13:21	review	First posts
Oct 6, 2015 at 13:26
Oct 6, 2015 at 13:20	history	asked	Eric Johnson	CC BY-SA 3.0