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Alessandro Volta created the first practical battery
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The 1st light bulb was built by Humphry Davy in 1809
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French inventor, Gaston Plante developed the first practical storage lead-acid battery that could be recharged
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the first dam was in Appleton, Wisconsin and created 12.5kilowats of electricity
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Charles Fritts built the first genuine solar cell
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the first electric wind turbine was built in scotland by prof. james blyth
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discovered the electron
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brothers Joe Jacobs and Marcellus Jacobs started a factory to build wind turbine to power lighting on farms
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10% of the US's energy came from dams
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the nuclear power plant creates energy in Obninsk, outside of Moscow