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Nature of electricity
This was the day Ben Franklin tied a key onto a kite during a storm and proved that static electricity and lightning were the same. -
Fuel cell developed
using hydrogen and oxygen, Sir Wiliam Robert Grove created the first fuel cell. -
The Incandescent Light bulb
Thomas Edisons Improvement of the original light bulb produces the incandescent light bulb. -
The Electricity Producing Windmill
Professor James Blyth builds the first windmill used exclusively for electricity production in Glasgoq, Scotland. -
Solar Power
A french scientist names Henry Becquerel introduces the photoelectric effect, which paved the way for solar cells used today. -
Radioactivity
French scientist Antonier Becqurel discovered radioactivity. -
Power plant
Itallian Scientist Piero Ginori Conti invents the first geothermal electric power plant. -
Vertical Axis Wind Turbine
In 1931 the Vertical axis wind turbine introduced the Darrieas turbine, known as the eggbeater windmills. -
Oil pipeline
The big inch crude oil pipeline is completed from the Texas oil fields in PA. -
Nuclear Energy
The first US commercial power plant splits uranium atoms to produce energy in PA.
