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10 Key Historical Energy Events

By gam0809
  • First Steam Engine

    First Steam Engine
    Thomas Savery was an English military engineer and inventor who in 1698, patented the first crude steam engine, based on Denis Papin's Digester or pressure cooker of 1679.
  • Lightning

    Lightning
    Benjamin Franklin conducted an experiment to prove that lightning is electricity by flying a kite in a storm that appeared capable of becoming a lightning storm.
  • Bio-Electricity

    Bio-Electricity
    Luigi Aloisio Galvani studied bio-electricity, a field that still today studies the electrical patterns and signals of the nervous system.
  • 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. This scientifically established the need for compression to increase the difference between the upper and lower working temperatures.
  • Telegraph

    Telegraph
    While a professor of arts and design at New York University in 1835, Samuel Morse proved that signals could be transmitted by wire.
  • First Internal Combustion Engine

    First Internal Combustion Engine
    French engineer J. J. Étienne Lenoir built a double-acting, spark-ignition engine that could be operated continuously.
  • Ruby Laser

    Ruby Laser
    Theodore Maiman invented the ruby laser considered to be the first successful optical or light laser.
  • Electric Battery

    Electric Battery
    Alessandro Volta, inventor of the electric battery.Volta’s discovery of the decomposition of water by an electrical current laid the foundation of electrochemistry.
  • Geothermal Energy

    Geothermal Energy
    The Geothermal Energy Association is formed. The association includes U.S. companies that develop geothermal resources worldwide for electrical power generation and direct-heat uses.