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500-900 AD Persia uses windmills to pump out water and grinding grain.
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Day and month N/A. While studying magnetism, William Gilbert creates the word electricity using Latin and Greek terms for amber.
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Day and month N/A. Samuel Morey developes an engine that runs on ethanol and turpentine.
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Day and month N/A. Auguste Mouchout converts solar energy directly into mechanical power.
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Day and month N/A. Wilhelm Roentgen discovers x-rays
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Day and month N/A. The first dry steam geothermal power plant is built in Laderello in Tuscany, Italy. The Larderello plant today provides power to about 1 million households.
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Day and month N/A. Enrico Fermi unknowingly performs the first nuclear fission by irradiating uranium with neutrons.
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Hoover Dam dedicated. It began operating on the Colorado river in 1936, producing 130,000 kilowatts of electricity.
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Day and month N/A. Wind generated energy reaches 2,000 megawatt mark.
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The greeks first used hydropower to turn wheels for grinding grains.
