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Benjamin Franklin flies a kite with a key attached to it during a thunderstorm to prove that lightning sparks are similar.
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Alessandro Volta invented the first electric battery.
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Michael Faraday created the first electric motor by using a metal wire suspended in a cup of mercury. Later, he kept experimenting and all of his results led to the conclusion and understanding of of electrical transformers and motors
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The first solar panel was invented by Charles Fritts
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Thomas Edison invented the first electric light bulb.
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Coal used to generate electricity
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On September 30, 1882, the world's first hydroelectric power plant began operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin.
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The world's first commericial geothermal power plant was built in 1911, at the Larderello dry steam field, powering many areas.
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On June 27, 1954, the USSR's Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant became the world's first nuclear power plant to generate electricity for a power grid, and produced around 5 megawatts of electric power
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Shippingport Reactor in Pennsylvania was the first nuclear power plan to provide electricity to people in the US.
