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Around 1300 AD the first horizontal axis windmills were seen in Europe
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Thomas Savery invented the first crude steam engine
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Ben Franklin tied a key to a kite in a thunderstorm and proved that lightening and electricity were the same thing
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Alessandro volta invented the first electric battery
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Colonel Edwin Drake succeced in making the first ever oil well on a little pennsylvania farm.
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Thomas Edison invents the lightbulb a useful device for every day activites
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The world's first hydroelectric power plant in the world began operation on the Fox River in Appletown, Wisconsin
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The first guinue solar cell was invented by Charles Fritts
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The first ever geothermal generator was tested by Prince Piero Ginori Conti
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The first nuclear bomb was made during 1941-1945 by scientist of the Manhattan Project. It first exploded in the Nevada Desert in New Mexico