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The First Stem Engine
The first steam engine was made in 1712 by Thomas Newcomen. His first machine made twelve strokes a minute, raising 10 gallons of water per stroke. Its had an estimated strength of 5.5 horsepower.
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10 Historical Energy Events
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The Discovery of Electricity
Electricity is the flow of energy that was discovered by Benjamin Franklin. In 1752, Ben Franklin conducted his experiment with a kite, a key, and a storm. That simply proved that lightning and tiny electric sparks were the same. Although an Italian physicist Alessandro Volta discovered that particular chemical reactions could produce electricity in 1800
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The Battery
In 1800, Volta created the first modern day battery what is also known as his voltaic pile. The first ever battery that was made consisted of pairs of zinc and copper disk stacked on top of each other with either a layer of cloth or cardboard that had be socked in brine.
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Solar Power
Solar power was founded by Augustine Mouchot because they feared that sources like cool, and other fossil flues would run out. Mouchot believed that it was possible for the sun's heat to replace the burning of coal that run Europe's industries. this led to the creation of the sun motor that used heat from focused sunlight to produce steam which was used to drive machinery."
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The Telegraph
Samuel Morse invented the telegraph, and a code named after him Morse code. The code assigned a set of dots and dashes to each letter of the English alphabet and allowed for the simple transmission of complex messages across telegraph lines. He had sent his first message from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore, Maryland. In 1866, a telegraph line had been laid across the Atlantic Ocean from the U.S. to Europe.
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The First Oil Well
By the middle decade petroleum proved in many circumstances to be a better choice.In 1859, E.L. Drake was searching for petroleum. In stead of dinging for it he decided to drill for the oil. At a some what oil creak. The drill he used was driven by a small steam engine He found it in August 29 at 71 feet deep initiating America's world first petroleum rush in history.
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The Light Bulb
The first light bulb made was an incandescent light bulb made by Tomas Edison.The story of the light bulb actually starts almost seventy years earlier before Edison made the incandescent light bulb In 1806 Humphrey Davy, an Englishman, demonstrated a powerful electric lamp to the Royal Society.
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The Wind Turbine
Charles F. Brush makes the world's first wind turbine "windmill" that can generate electricity as described in an 1890 issue of Scientific American. The speed of the windmill at full load is 500 rotations per minute, with a normal capacity at full load is 12,000 watts.
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The First Flex Fuel Vehicle
Ethanol-fueled vehicles date back to 1880 when Henry Ford built a car that ran only on ethanol. Henry later built a Flex Fuel Vehicle that can operate on gas or ethanol.
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The Electric Car Goes Public
released the EV1 to the public to meet a 1990 California mandate 2 percent of all cars sold in state in 1998 be zero-emission. A little over 1,000 EV1s were produced before the company shutdown the project in 2002 because of the low demand. other car makers also stopped producing electric cars. General Motors vehicles.Shortly after the wake of legal challenge from G.M. automakers began reclaiming their electrics after lees.
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