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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
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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.
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Michael Faraday rooted alternating current technology in 1830-1831 and discovered that changing magnetic fields can induce an electric current in a circuit.
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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.
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Originally used to generate power by using a water turbine
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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.
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The old Schoelkopf Power Station No. 1 began to produce electricity by means of hydroelectricity near Niagra Falls
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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
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Made cheap and plentiful electricity possible.
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The first automatically operated wind turbine was built in Cleveland, Ohio by Charles F. Brush to generate electricity
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Sir Charles Parsons established the first electrical supply company in the world called "Newcastle and District Electric Lighting Company"
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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
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The first geothermal power generator was tested in Larderllo, Italy, it lit 4 light bulbs.
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Built in Lardello, Italy in 1911. Italy was the worlds only producer of geothermal energy until about 1958
