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Invented by Thomas Savery and Edward Somerset, the steam engine is an engine that uses steam to generate power. It was used to remove water from the mines.
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Ben Franklin flew a kite with a key attached to it, during a thunderstorm. The lightning stuck the key and produced electricity.
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Alessandro Volta developed the first practical method of generating electricity, the voltaic pile.
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Thomas Davenport developed the first real electric motor.
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William Grove invents the 'gas battery' which is the the first fuel cell.
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The first light bulb was invented by Thomas Edison. There were others before him but his was the most successful.
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It was Karl Benz who was the first true automobile. It was a one-cylinder two-stroke unit.
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Piero Ginori Conti invents the first geothermic electric power plant used to send electricity to different places,
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The splitting and combining of the atom was used to develop nuclear energy.
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Bell Labs creates the first practical solar cell. A solar cell is a device converting solar radiation into electricity.
