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Ben Franklin proved that static electricity and lightning were the same, by tying a key onto a kite string during a storm.
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First electric battery invented by Alessandro Volta.
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1821 The first electric motor was invented by Michael Faraday.
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Georg Ohm defined the relationship between power, voltage, current and resistance in “Ohms Law.”
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Sir William Robert Grove developed the first fuel cell, a device that produces electrical energy by combining hydrogen and oxygen.
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The electric streetcar was invented by E.W. v. Siemens.
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Electron discovered by Joseph John Thomson.
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World’s first all turbine station in Chicago.
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Hoover Dam was completed.
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Shippingport Reactor in Pennsylvania was the first nuclear power plant to provide electricity to customers in the U.S.
