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Carbon Arc Lamp
The inventor of the carbon arc lamp, Sir Humphry Davy dicovered that electricity could produce light arcs with carbon electrodes. This could not be used to any full extent until a practical way of generating electricity was developed -
The Faraday Disk
Michael Faraday invented the worlds first electric generator. A horseshoe shaped magnet created a magnetic field into the large disk. As the disk turned, it created an electrical current. -
Alternating Currents
Michael Faraday rooted alternating current technology in 1830-1831 and discovered that changing magnetic fields can induce an electric current in a circuit. -
DC Motors/Electric Motors
William Sturgeon invented a motor capable of turning machinery. Innovated on the Faraday Disk by incorporating a commutator that allowed for the rotary motion of the generator to be continuous. -
Hydroelectricity
Originally used to generate power by using a water turbine -
Incandescent Light Bulbs
Thomas Edison invented the first commercially available light bulb in 1879, 1 year later than Joseph swan which had the same idea but had a less efficient design. -
Schoelkopf Power Station No. 1
The old Schoelkopf Power Station No. 1 began to produce electricity by means of hydroelectricity near Niagra Falls -
improving the DC Motor
Frank J. Sprague improved the DC Motor fixing a problem of maintaining a constent speed by varying load on the motor and reducing sparking from brushes -
Steam Turbine
Made cheap and plentiful electricity possible. -
Wind Turbines
The first automatically operated wind turbine was built in Cleveland, Ohio by Charles F. Brush to generate electricity -
First Electric Supply Company
Sir Charles Parsons established the first electrical supply company in the world called "Newcastle and District Electric Lighting Company" -
Turbo Generator
The first turbo generators were water turbines that propelled electric generators. it was officially invented by a Hungarian engineer but Charles Parsons had already demonstrated a DC steam powered turbo generator in 1887 -
First Geothermal Power Generator
The first geothermal power generator was tested in Larderllo, Italy, it lit 4 light bulbs. -
First Commercial Geothermal Power Plant
Built in Lardello, Italy in 1911. Italy was the worlds only producer of geothermal energy until about 1958
