10 Key Developments in Energy

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    Key Energy Developments

  • Steam Engine

    Steam Engine
    First crude steam engine was created by Thomas Savery

  • The Nature of Electricity

    Ben Franklin discovered electricty in his famous kite test

  • Oil Well

    Oil Well
    Colonel Edwin Drake created the first oil well in Pennsylvania

  • Battery

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

  • Light bulb

    Light bulb
    Thomas Edison invents the first light bulb

  • Solar Cell

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

  • Automobile

    Automobile
    First gasoline powered automobile is introduced by Karl Benz

  • Windmill

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

  • Nuclear Fission

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

  • Silicon Solar Cell

    Silicon Solar Cell
    Russel Ohl invents the first silicon solar cell