Alternative energy

Energy Timeline

By eli_miller
  • First Successful Steam Engine Created

    First Successful Steam Engine Created

    Created by Thomas Newcomen and was used to pump water.
    *Coulnd't find Month and Day created.
  • First Battery Invented

    First Battery Invented

    It was invented by an Italian physicist Alessandro Volta, he called it a "Voltaic Pile".
  • First Steam Powered Train Traveled for the First TIme

    First Steam Powered Train Traveled for the First TIme

    Samuel Homfrey funded the invention in 1803 and Richard Trecvithick built the design. Hauled 10 tons of iron, 50 men, and 5 extra wagons.
  • Oil Well Invented

    Oil Well Invented

    The first one was drilled in the US and it was credited to Edwin Drake
  • First Light Invented

    First Light Invented

    Thomas Edison created the first light bulb.
  • First Solar Panel

    First Solar Panel

    Built by Charles Fritts. It was the first solid state photovoltaic cell.
    *Couldn't find the month and day
  • First Windmill for Electricty was Invented

    First Windmill for Electricty was Invented

    Though this was not the first windmill, it was the first to be used to generate electrictity in Cleveland, Ohio by Charles F. Brush.
    *Do not know actual month and date.
  • First Enounter with Geothermal Energy

    First Enounter with Geothermal Energy

    Eventually the plant was built in 1911 in the Valle del Diavolo in the city of Larderello, Italy.
  • First Atomic Bomb Tested

    First Atomic Bomb Tested

    Tested to the Southeast of Socorro, New Mexico. It's code name was Trinity.
  • First Atomic Dropped

    First Atomic Dropped

    Dropped by the United States on Hiroshima, Japan during WWII.
  • Xcel Energy Announcement

    Xcel Energy Announcement

    Company announced that it will become the largest provider of wind energy in the US by 2007.