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Benjamin Franklin tied a key onto a kite during a storm to prove that static electricity and lightning were the same.
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Thomas Davenport invented the electric motor which is used in most electrical appliances today.
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Sir William Robert Grove developed the first fuel cell, which produces electrical energy by combining hydroen and oxygen.
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Samuel Morse invented the electric telegraph which is a machine that could send messages long distances across wire.
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Thomas Edison invented the incandescent light bulb that could be used for 40 ours without burning out.
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William Stanley developed the induction coil transformer and an alternating current electric system.
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Charles Brush built the first wind turbine to generate electricity. It was 17 meters tall, used 144 rotor blades and had a capacity of 12 kilowatts.
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Henry Becquerel tested the production of electricity directly from the sun while experimenting with an electrolytic cell made of two metal electrodes placed in an electricity-conducting solution.
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Piero Ginori Conti invented the first geothermal electric power plant.
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Photoelectric Cells were discovered.
