10 Key Developments in Energy

Key Energy Developments

Period: Jun 28, 1690 to Jun 28, 1950

Steam Engine

Jun 28, 1698

First crude steam engine was created by Thomas Savery

The Nature of Electricity

Jun 28, 1752

Ben Franklin discovered electricty in his famous kite test

Oil Well

Jun 28, 1859

Colonel Edwin Drake created the first oil well in Pennsylvania

Battery

Jun 28, 1859

French Inventor Gaston Plante developed a lead-acid battery that could be recharged

Light bulb

Jun 28, 1880

Thomas Edison invents the first light bulb

Solar Cell

Jun 28, 1883

Charles Fritz became the first person to convert solar energy to electricity

Automobile

Jun 28, 1886

First gasoline powered automobile is introduced by Karl Benz

Windmill

Jun 28, 1888

Charles F. Brush developed the first windmill at his Euclid Avenue Mansion.

Nuclear Fission

Jun 28, 1938

Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassman, two German scientists, demonstrate nuclear fission

Silicon Solar Cell

Jun 28, 1941

Russel Ohl invents the first silicon solar cell