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Benjamin Franklin tied a key onto a kite during a thunderstorm. Doing this he proved static electricity and lighting are the same thing
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Benjamin Franklin tied a key onto a kite during a storm to prove static electricity and lighting are the same thing
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Thomas Davenport invented the electric motor.
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Sir Thomas Robert Grove developed the first fuel cell. A fuel cell is a device that produces electric energy by combining hydrogen and oxygen.
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Samuel Morse invented the telegraph, a device that let others communicate with each other over long distance.
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Thomas Edison invented the first incandescent light bulb. It could last 40 hours without burning out.
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William Stanley Jr. introduced the coil transformer and alternating current electrical system
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Charles Brush built the first ever wind turbine to generate electricity, it was built in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Henri Becquerel observed the production of energy from the sun. He experimented with an electromagnet cell, he discovered solar power.
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Piero Ginori Conti invented the firt ever geothermal electric power plant.
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On December 20, 1951 16 the first nuclear power plant to generate electricity was built in Idaho.
