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Coal was discovered near Richmnd, VA
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Thomas Francois Dalibard stole Benjamin Franklins idea and conduted an experiment using a 40 foot tall iron rod instead of a kite and failed.
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Benjamin (ben) Franklin tied a key to a kite string during a thunderstorm and proved that static electricity and lighting were the same.
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Alessandro Volta invented the first electric battery sometime in the year of 1800.
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Samuel Morey developed an engine that run of ethanol and turpentine.
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Robert Anderson bulit an electric car between 1832-39.
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Wilhelm Roentgen, German Physicist, discovers X-rays and it won him the first nobel prize in physics.
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Henry Ford bulit his 1st automobile, quadricycle, to run on pure ethanol.
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sometime in 1901 they published the theory of radioactive decay.
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Prince Piero Ginori Conti tested the first geothermal power generator on 4 July 1904, at the Larderello dry steam field in Italy.Later, in 1911, the world's first geothermal power plant was built there.
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Rutherford discovered the nucleus of the atom.