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Experimented with static electricity by making generators out of amber disks and cat fur that made electric sparks.
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Discovers the connection between electricity and lightning by tying a key to a kite and flying it in a thunderstorm.
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Discovers 'animal electricity' or bioelectricity while dissecting a frog with a brass hook.
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John Frederic Daniell creates the first practical battery with an unglazed earthenware container filled with sulfuric acid and a zinc electrode.
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Alexandre Edmond Becquerel discovers that electricity can be generated by sunlight by shining light on an electrode submerged in a conductive solution.
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James Francis creates the Francis turbine, it is still the most widely used water turbine to this day.
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Files his first patent application on the first incandescent lamp.
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Karl Benz creates the first true automobile.
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Prince Piero Ginori Conti tested the first geothermal power generator.
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Nuclear fission of heavy elements was discovered by German Otto Hahn and his assistant Fritz Strassmann.
