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Some of the earliest windmills were from China and can be traced to about 200 B.C
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Roads of rails called Wagonways were being used in Germany as early as 1550. These primitive railed roads consisted of wooden rails over which horse-drawn wagons or carts moved with greater ease than over dirt roads
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In 1600, William Gilbert published his treatise De magnete, Magneticisique Corporibus which was his study of electricity and magnetism
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Thomas Newcomen and Thomas Savery made the first steam engine to use a piston and cylinder,
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Edmund Becquerel observed and published findings about turning light into energy
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The first oil well was drilled by Edwin Drake.
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Hydroelectricity became an even bigger deal in 1903 when six major dam projects were approved
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Thomas Davenport invented the motor in 1but it was not patented till 1837. Mr. Davenport was not even a scientist,he sold things and got money to buy an electromagnet for himself. He took it apart and started creating his own things which was how the electric motor was invented.
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The first nuclear reactor to produce electricity was the small Experimental Breeder reactor in Idaho, in the USA
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It became important to find an alternative form of energy as we realised just how reliant we really are on non-renewable, finite resources like coal, oil and gas for our existence
