10 Key Historical Energy Events

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  • First Steam Engine

    First Steam Engine
    In 1698, Thomas Savery, an engineer and inventor, patented a machine that could effectively draw water from flooded mines using steam pressure.

  • Bio-electricity

    Bio-electricity
    Bio-electricity, electric potentials and currents produced by or occurring within living organisms.

  • First Electric Motor

    First Electric Motor
    The conversion of electrical energy into mechanical energy by electromagnetic means was demonstrated by the British scientist Michael Faraday in 1821

  • Heat Engines

    Heat Engines
    French physicist Sadi Carnot established the thermodynamic theory of idealized heat engines

  • Telegraph

    Telegraph
    At New York University in 1835 a professor designed while Samuel Morse proved that signals could be transmitted by wire.

  • First Lightbulb Made

    First Lightbulb Made
    In November 1879, Edison filed a patent for an electric lamp with a carbon filament.

  • First Automoblie

    First Automoblie
    The first automobile was created with the wheels are similar to that of a bicycle.

  • Hoover Dam Opens

    On this date, the Hoover Dam was opened to the US

  • Solar Panels Are Created

    Solar Panels Are Created
    Solar panels production begins to increase and this also means they begin to use solar energy.

  • Battery

    Battery
    Alessandro Volta, inventor of the electric battery.