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The First Steam Engine
A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid, and generate power that could be transmitted to machines. -
The First Battery
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. -
The First Electric Light
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. -
The Fuel Cell
Sir William Robert Grove developed the first fuel cell, a device that produces electrical energy by combining hydrogen and oxygen. -
Solar Power
Alexandre Edmond Becquerel discovered the photo voltaic effect explaining how electricity can be generated from sunlight. -
The Water Turbine
Engineer James Francis developed the first modern water turbine which remains the most widely used water turbine in the world today. -
First Oil Well
The first oil well successfully produced oil and gas in large quantities and provided economic substantiation to the U.s. -
The Wind Turbine
The windmill was hugely successful as a means of pumping water on farms and ranches in the expanding western frontier, created by Charles Bush. -
The First Automobile
Henry Ford, William Durant, J. Frank and Charles Duryea all contributed to the designing of the first successful American gasoline automobile. -
The First Nuclear Power Plant
The Shippingport Atomic Power Station was the world’s first full scale atomic electric power plant exclusively for peacetime uses.
