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The Match
The match is first discovered by Robert Boyle who rubbed phosphorus and sulfur together. -
Electric Generator
Sir Issac Newton builds an electric generator consisting of a rotating glass sphere. -
Gas
Gas began to be used in London in 1802 to light street lamps. -
Coal Gas
Frederick Albert Winsor patents an oven for the manufacture of coal gas. -
Combustion Engine
Samuel Brown invents an internal combustion engine with separate combustion and working cylinders and uses it to power a vehicle. -
Incandscent electric lamp
John Draper patents an incandescent electric lamp with a platinum filament. -
Internal Combustion Engine
Julius Hock is the first to build an internal combustion engine that uses liquid gasoline. -
Motorbike
Gottlieb Daimler installs one of his internal combustion engines on a bicycle, thus creating the first motorbike. -
Hydroelectric Powerplant
High Grove Station in San Bernardino, California, was the location of the first hydroelectric power plant in the Western United States. -
Geothermal Energy
The first commercial greenhouse use of geothermal energy is undertaken in Boise, Idaho. The operation utilizes a 1000-foot well drilled in 1926. In Klamath Falls, Charlie Lieb develops the first down-hole heat exchanger (DHE) to heat his.
