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Ben Franklin discovered electricity
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Thomas Davenport invented the electric motor
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Sir William Robert Grove developed the first fuel cell
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Samuel Morse invented the electric telegraph
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Thomas Edison invented an incandescent light bulb that could be used for about 40 hours without burning out
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William Stanley developed the induction coil transformer and an alternating current electric system.
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Charles Brush builds the first wind turbine to generate electricity
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French scientist Henry Becquerel observes the production of electricity directly from the sun while experimenting with an electrolytic cell made up of two metal electrodes placed in an electricity-conducting solution.
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Piero Ginori Conti invents the first geothermal electric power plant.
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Photoelectic cells were discovered.
