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Energy Improvements

By thomas_jameson

  • Electricity’s Giant Leap

    Electricity’s Giant Leap
    With a kite, string and a key, Benjamin Franklin‘s experiments pave the way for future energy usage.

  • Fuel Cell Developed

    Fuel Cell Developed
    Using hydrogen and oxygen, Sir William Robert Grove creates the first fuel cell.

  • First Successful Oil Well

    First Successful Oil Well
    Edwin Drake broke into the oil refinement business.

  • The Invention of the Incandescent Light Bulb

    The Invention of the Incandescent Light Bulb
    – Thomas Edison’s improvement on the original light bulb.

  • First AC System

    First AC System
    William Stanley builds the first AC system.

  • The First Windmill

    The First Windmill
    Professor James Blyth builds the first windmill

  • Solar Power

    Solar Power
    French Scientist Henry Becquerel introduces the photoelectric effect

  • First Geothermal Plant

    First Geothermal Plant
    Prince Piero Ginori Conti invents the first geothermal power plant

  • Vertical Axis Wind Turbine Introduced

    Vertical Axis Wind Turbine Introduced
    The Darrieus turbine is still used today.

  • U.S. Commercial Nuclear Energy

    U.S. Commercial Nuclear Energy
    The first U.S. power plant splits uranium atoms to make energy.