Energy Events

By hannahmcdiarmid
  • Jan 1, 1490

    Oven

    Oven
    The first historical record of an oven being built, refers to a stove built in 1490, made entirely of brick and tile.

  • Artificial Fridge

    Artificial Fridge
    The first known artificial refrigeration was demonstrated by William Cullen at the University of Glasgow in 1748

  • Electric Car

    Electric Car
    In 1828, Hungarian, Ányos Jedlik invented a small-scale model car powered by an electric motor that he designed

  • Water Dam

    Water Dam
    French engineer Benoît Fourneyron developed the first successful water turbine in 1832.

  • Solar Panel

    Solar Panel
    In 1839 Alexandre Edmond Becquerel discovered the photovoltaic effect which explains how electricity can be generated from sunlight.

  • Telephone

    Telephone
    Alexander Graham Bell's notebook entry of 10 March 1876 describes his successful experiment with the telephone.

  • Television

    Television
    Paul Nipkow proposed and patented the first electromechanical television system in 1884

  • Electric Fan

    Electric Fan
    Schulyer Wheeler invented the electric fan in 1886.

  • Lightbulb

    Lightbulb
    Thomas Edison creates a long lasting source of energy, the lightbulb.

  • Laptop

    Laptop
    One of the first commercially available laptop computers was invented by Adam Osborne in 1981.