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This was the day Ben Franklin tied a key onto a kite during a storm and proved that static electricity and lightning were the same.
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using hydrogen and oxygen, Sir Wiliam Robert Grove created the first fuel cell.
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Thomas Edisons Improvement of the original light bulb produces the incandescent light bulb.
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Professor James Blyth builds the first windmill used exclusively for electricity production in Glasgoq, Scotland.
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A french scientist names Henry Becquerel introduces the photoelectric effect, which paved the way for solar cells used today.
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French scientist Antonier Becqurel discovered radioactivity.
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Itallian Scientist Piero Ginori Conti invents the first geothermal electric power plant.
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In 1931 the Vertical axis wind turbine introduced the Darrieas turbine, known as the eggbeater windmills.
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The big inch crude oil pipeline is completed from the Texas oil fields in PA.
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The first US commercial power plant splits uranium atoms to produce energy in PA.
