Alternative energy

Power and Energy Inventions in the Industrial Revolution

  • Period: to

    industrial Revolution

  • Steam Engine

    Thomas Newcomen
    Newcomen makes furst usable steam engine but it is not used because it was ineffiecent and expensive to make.
  • Steam Engine

    James Watt
    Watt creates a better more effiecient version of a steam engine compared to Newcomen's and it sparks a new steam relied period in Europe.
  • Coal Gas

    William Murdock/James Watt
    Murdock, with the help of his boss, Watt, burn coal near William's home to fuel his lights and his machines.
  • Steam Locomotive

    Robert Trevithick
    Robert creates first idea for a steam powered train. Although revolutionary, the plan is abandoed because of lack of money and effieceincy.
  • Steam Boat

    Robert Fulton
    Thanks to the steam engine, the steam boat is created, becoming one of the most popular modes of transportation in Britian.
  • Electric Motor

    Matthew Faraday
    Proposes the first principles of a possible electric powered motor by cdemostrating electro-magnetic rotations to the scientific community.
  • Electric Generators

    Faraday
    Discovering electic currents, lead Faraday to begin building Electric engines and Generators.
  • Oil!

    Edwin Drake
    Drake finds the most plentiful resource, oil, in Pennsylvania. Oil would go on to power mostly any engine or generator just up until modern times.
  • Light Bulb

    Thomas Edison
    Edison invents the light bulb, the gateway to the modern idea of how to bring light to homes, streets and other places. It runs prley on electricity.
  • Combustion Engine

    Benz
    Invents first automobile to run on an internal-combustion engine. This was improved by far steam engines and electric ones.
  • Diesel Fuel

    Rudolph Diesel
    Invents diesel fuel. This would become the prime candidate to run most engines and generators everywhere for a century.