-
The fist steam engine was invinted. This steam engine was used to get water out of the coal mines in China.
-
Ben Franklin tied a key to kite in the middle of a thunderstorm to prove his theroy that static electricty and lightening are the same. Due to his research and correct guessing move research was started.
-
The electric motor was inented by Thomas Davenport. The electric motor was and is still used in appliacnces.
-
The first fuel cell was invented by Sir William Robert Grove. By combining hydrogen and oxygen this device was bale to provide energy.
-
The first electic teleograph was invented. This was the first form of comunication not by carrier.
-
Charles Brush being a scienitist as well as a bussiness man created the first form of alternative energy from wind, the wind turbine. It had the capacity of 12 kilowatts.
-
Henry Becquerel studied the sun and the electricty it produces while messing with two metal electrodes that were in an electricity-conducting solution, this being a electrolytic cell. All of this coming together to make the first solar power energy studies.
-
Piero Ginori Conti was the creator and inventor of the first geothermal power plant. This plant lit 4 light bulbs and only grew from there.
-
Robert Millikan produced an exsperiment that proved Albert Einstein's 1905 paper on the photoelectric effect.
-
China was the fist to uses coal as a sourse for energy. This energy was was for heating and cooking.
Note: This was 2000 BC, so the beginning of alternative energy history
