10 Key Historical Energy Events

  • First Steam Engine

    First Steam Engine

    In 1698, Thomas Savery, an engineer and inventor, patented a machine that could effectively draw water from flooded mines using steam pressure.
  • Bio-electricity

    Bio-electricity

    Bio-electricity, electric potentials and currents produced by or occurring within living organisms.
  • First Electric Motor

    First Electric Motor

    The conversion of electrical energy into mechanical energy by electromagnetic means was demonstrated by the British scientist Michael Faraday in 1821
  • Heat Engines

    Heat Engines

    French physicist Sadi Carnot established the thermodynamic theory of idealized heat engines
  • Telegraph

    Telegraph

    At New York University in 1835 a professor designed while Samuel Morse proved that signals could be transmitted by wire.
  • First Lightbulb Made

    First Lightbulb Made

    In November 1879, Edison filed a patent for an electric lamp with a carbon filament.
  • First Automoblie

    First Automoblie

    The first automobile was created with the wheels are similar to that of a bicycle.
  • Hoover Dam Opens

    On this date, the Hoover Dam was opened to the US
  • Solar Panels Are Created

    Solar Panels Are Created

    Solar panels production begins to increase and this also means they begin to use solar energy.
  • Battery

    Battery

    Alessandro Volta, inventor of the electric battery.