Earth Science Honors Timeline

By Cameron Parchment

  • Dutch Build Windmills for Multiple Uses

    Dutch Build Windmills for Multiple Uses
    The Dutch use windmills to saw wood and ground grain.

  • Coal Begins to Displace Use of Other Energies

    Coal Begins to Displace Use of Other Energies
    The world was starting using different energies such as coal to start a new era of energy

  • First Steam Engine

    First Steam Engine
    First Steam Engine Developed in England to Pump Water Out of Coal Mines.

  • George Ohm

    George Ohm
    George Ohm discovered the relationship between power, voltage, resistance, and current.

  • First Electric Motor

    First Electric Motor
    Thomas Davenport invented the electric motor, a device that is used in most electrical appliances today.

  • First Rechargeable Battery

    First Rechargeable Battery
    Gaston Plante invents the lead-acid battery, which is the first commercial rechargeable electric battery.

  • First Solar Power System

    First Solar Power System
    Developed in France to produce steam to drive machinery.

  • First Car Engine

    First Car Engine
    Karl Benz made the first car engine was a gas-powered two stroke piston engine.

  • Thomas Edison Invents The Light Bulb

    Thomas Edison Invents The Light Bulb
    The first practical incandescent light bulb.

  • First Electric Plant

    First Electric Plant
    First electric plant built by Thomas Edison in New York near Wall Street. At 3 p.m. on September 4, 1882, Edison flipped the switch that would start up America's first power plant which cover a square mile.