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Historical energy events

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  • Aug 29, 600

    first known talk of energy

    first known talk of energy
    600 BC Thales of Miletus writes about amber becoming charged by rubbing - he was describing what we now call static electricity http://www.electricityforum.com/a-timeline-of-history-of-electricity.html
  • Aug 29, 1269

    magnets

    magnets
    1269 - Petrus Peregrinus of Picardy, Italy, discovers that natural spherical magnets (lodestones) align needles with lines of longitude pointing between two pole positions on the stone.

  • benjermin franklins discovery

    benjermin franklins discovery
    in 1752 a man named benjermin franklin tied a key to the end of a kite and flew it when the electricity hit the kite string which was wet it gave him a shock and this was the beginning. http://www.enwin.com/kids/electricity/history.cfm

  • the first electrical telegraph

    the first electrical telegraph
    An electrical telegraph was independently developed and patented in the United States in 1837 by Samuel Morse. His assistant, Alfred Vail, developed the Morse code signalling alphabet with Morse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_telegraph

  • the first lightbulb

    the first lightbulb
    Throughout the next hundred years, many inventors and scientists tried to find a way to use electrical power to make light. In 1879, the American inventor Thomas Edison was finally able to produce a reliable, long-lasting electric light-bulb in his laboratory. http://www.enwin.com/kids/electricity/history.cfm