10 Key Developments in Energy

By mkelso17
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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