Energy

By amcharamut
  • Jan 1, 600

    Thales discovered static electricity

    Discovered that when amber was rubbed with silk it attracted feathers and other objects.

  • William Gilbert invented the term electricity

    Created the word for electricity from the Greek word for amber which was first used to discover electricity.

  • The Wimshurst machine was invented

    Two parallel plates are rotated in opposite directions, which produces a charge around the edge of the plates. The charge is then collected by a system of combs.

  • Franics Hauksbee invented neon light

    Huskbee put mercury into a glass globe and pumped out the air and spun the globe. When he did this process in the dark and rubbed the globe with his bare hands it glowed.

  • Franklin proved that lightning is a form of energy

    He flew a kite with a metal tip in the middle of a storm to prove that lightning produced energy.

  • Luigi Galvani's frogs legs

    He noticed that if he touched a dead frogs leg with a knife it twitched violently.

  • Sir Humphry Davis discovered electrolysis

    Discovered that when he passed an electric current through some substances they decomposed.

  • Hans Christian Oerstead discovered magnetic fields

    Found that when electricity flow through a wire it produces a magnetic field that affects the needle of a nearby compass.

  • The first telegraph machine

    created by Charles Wheatstone and William Fothergill

  • Joseph Swan demonstrated the first electric light

    He used a carbon filament lamp to demonstrate electric light.

  • The first public electric supply was possible with the mill

    Generated in Godalming, Surrey.

  • Magnus Volks built the first electric railway

    opened on Brighton seafront. was built just for pleasure rides.

  • Hendrik Lorentz published his electron theory

    was a Dutch physicist

  • Discovery of X-rays

    Discovered invisible rays that made a distant screen glow and passed through objects.

  • Nikola Teslais hydroelectric power generators

    Came into operation at Niagara Falls. Within a few years they were supplying energy to New York City.

  • Washing machines and refrigerators were invented

    Electric washing machines and fridges first became available.

  • First national grid was introduced

    Made possible by the Electricity Supply Act.

  • John Logie pioneered the television

    First pioneered.

  • The UKis first pressurized water reactor

    Took seven years and was the largest one to be in operation.

  • The world's first commercial wave power station

    Use wave motion to compress into electricity.