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Thomas Newcomen
The fist steam engine was invinted. This steam engine was used to get water out of the coal mines in China. -
Ben Franklin
Ben Franklin tied a key to kite in the middle of a thunderstorm to prove his theroy that static electricty and lightening are the same. Due to his research and correct guessing move research was started. -
Thomas Davenport
The electric motor was inented by Thomas Davenport. The electric motor was and is still used in appliacnces. -
Sir William Robert Grove
The first fuel cell was invented by Sir William Robert Grove. By combining hydrogen and oxygen this device was bale to provide energy. -
Samuel Morse
The first electic teleograph was invented. This was the first form of comunication not by carrier. -
Charles Brush
Charles Brush being a scienitist as well as a bussiness man created the first form of alternative energy from wind, the wind turbine. It had the capacity of 12 kilowatts. -
Henry Becquerel
Henry Becquerel studied the sun and the electricty it produces while messing with two metal electrodes that were in an electricity-conducting solution, this being a electrolytic cell. All of this coming together to make the first solar power energy studies. -
Piero Ginori Conti
Piero Ginori Conti was the creator and inventor of the first geothermal power plant. This plant lit 4 light bulbs and only grew from there. -
Robert Millikan
Robert Millikan produced an exsperiment that proved Albert Einstein's 1905 paper on the photoelectric effect. -
China
China was the fist to uses coal as a sourse for energy. This energy was was for heating and cooking.
Note: This was 2000 BC, so the beginning of alternative energy history
