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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.