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In 1600, William Gilbert published his treatise De magnete, Magneticisique Corporibus (On the Magnet). Printed in scholarly Latin, the book explained years of Gilbert's research and experiments on electricity and magnetism. Gilbert raised the interest in the new science greatly. It was Gilbert who coined the expression "electrica" in his famous book.
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The first practical steam-powered 'engine' was a water pump, developed in 1698 by Thomas Savery.
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The first full-scale working railway steam locomotive was built by Richard Trevithick in the United Kingdom and, on 21 February 1804
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The conversion of electrical energy into mechanical energy by electromagnetic means was demonstrated by the British scientist Michael Faraday in 1821.
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In 1878 the world's first hydroelectric power scheme was developed at Cragside in Northumberland, England by William George Armstrong
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The first electricity generating wind turbine, was a battery charging machine installed in July 1887 by Scottish academic James Blyth
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In 1890, Thomas Edison had brought together several of his business interests under one corporation to form Edison General Electric
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The discovery of nuclear fission occurred in 1938, following nearly five decades of work on the science of radioactivity and the elaboration of new nuclear physics that described the components of atoms.
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The creation of the first man-made reactor, known as Chicago Pile-1, which achieved criticality on December 2, 1942
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General Motors invented the Electrovan in 1966
