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10 KEY HISTORICAL ENERGY EVENTS

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  • Invention of the steam invention

    Invention of the steam invention
    A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid.

  • First electric light created

    First electric light created
    The electric light, one of the everyday conveniences that most affects our lives, was not “invented” in the traditional sense in 1879 by Thomas Alva Edison, although he could be said to have created the first commercially practical incandescent light.

  • Fuel cell

    Fuel cell
    Sir William Robert Grove developed the first fuel cell, a device that produces electrical energy by combining hydrogen and oxygen.

  • Wind turbine invented

    Wind turbine invented
    The first windmill manufactured in the United States was designed by Daniel Halladay, who began inventing windmills in 1854 in his Connecticut machine shop. The windmill was hugely successful as a means of pumping water on farms and ranches in the expanding western frontier, so much so that Halladay moved his operation to Illinois.

  • First battery invented

    First battery invented
    In 1799, Alessandro Volta developed the first electrical battery. This battery, known as the Voltaic Cell, consisted of two plates of different metals immersed in a chemical solution

  • Solar power energy invented

    Solar power energy invented
    Solar power technology is not a recent development; in fact, it dates back to the mid 1800s to the industrial revolution when solar energy plants were developed to heat water that created steam to drive machinery.

  • Alternating current energy system

    Alternating current energy system
    William Stanley developed the induction coil transformer and an alternating current electric system.

  • First automobile invented

    First automobile invented
    In 1886 the first petrol or gasoline powered automobile the Benz Patent-Motorwagen was invented by Karl Benz.

  • Photoelectric cells

    Photoelectric cells
    The photoelectric effect was known to science in the early nineteenth century when the French physicist Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel wrote of it in connection with his work on glass-enclosed primary batteries.

  • Nuclear fission is discovered

    Nuclear fission is discovered
    Nuclear fission of heavy elements was discovered on December 17, 1938 by German Otto Hahn and his assistant Fritz Strassmann, and was explained theoretically in January 1939.