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Energy Timeline

  • A coal discovery

    A coal discovery

    Coal was found near Richmond, Virginia.
  • Lightning rod

    Lightning rod

    Benjamin Franklin inventd the lightning rod.
  • Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin tied a key to a kite and put the end of the string in a layden jar. This expierement showed that lightning is static electricity.
  • Battery

    Battery

    Alessandro Volta invented the first electric battery.
  • Electric car

    Electric car

    Robert Anderson built the first eectric car.
  • Bob Weiley

    Bob Weiley

    Bob Weiley invented the first windmill.
  • Thomas Alva Edison

    Thomas Alva Edison

    Thomas edison invents the first electrical light bulb.
  • X-ray

    Wilhelm Roentgen discovers X-rays.
  • Ethenol

    Ethenol

    Henery Ford built the first automobile that could run on ethenol.
  • Neclear

    Neclear

    Arco, Idaho produces the first electrical charge with a neclear reacter.