5.8 Energy Timeline

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  • batery

    batery
    Alessandro Volta created the first practical battery
  • light

    light
    The 1st light bulb was built by Humphry Davy in 1809
  • rechargable battery

    rechargable battery
    French inventor, Gaston Plante developed the first practical storage lead-acid battery that could be recharged
  • first hydroelectric dam

    first hydroelectric dam
    the first dam was in Appleton, Wisconsin and created 12.5kilowats of electricity
  • first solar cell built

    first solar cell built
    Charles Fritts built the first genuine solar cell
  • first electric wind turbine

    first electric wind turbine
    the first electric wind turbine was built in scotland by prof. james blyth
  • j.j thomson

    j.j thomson
    discovered the electron
  • Joe Jacobs and Marcellus Jacobs produce windmills for farms

    Joe Jacobs and Marcellus Jacobs produce windmills for farms
    brothers Joe Jacobs and Marcellus Jacobs started a factory to build wind turbine to power lighting on farms
  • energy

    energy
    10% of the US's energy came from dams
  • firs nuclear power plant

    firs nuclear power plant
    the nuclear power plant creates energy in Obninsk, outside of Moscow