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franklins kite Franklin conducted the kite experiment to prove his hypothesis that electricity and lightining were similar
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faraday and his apparatus
Faraday's device showed how one could transform electrical energy into mechanical energy. -
thomas eddison and his lightbulb
While not the first person to invent the lightbuld. Eddison made the first commercially viable one. His test started in October 1878 and didn't finish until October 1879 an entire year later! -
http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/time_machine/time_machine_date_test.php?begYear=1900&endYear=1910' >petrolium</a>
In the 1900's America discovered the efficency of off shore petroleum -
http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/time_machine/time_machine_date_test.php?begYear=1910&endYear=1920' >hydroelectricty </a>
Steinmentz had warned about the future of hydroelectricity and how air pollution and coal burning would be a problem -
http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/time_machine/time_machine_date_test.php?begYear=1930&endYear=1940' >geothermal energy </a>
The first commerical greenhouse use of geothermal energy was used in 1930 in Boise Idaho -
http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/time_machine/time_machine_date_test.php?begYear=1940&endYear=1950' >wind power </a>
In 1941 the united states learned how to generate alternate energy from wind. -
http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/time_machine/time_machine_date_test.php?begYear=1950&endYear=1960'
In England one of the first nuclear reactors went into operation at windscale -
E.P.A
The Enviromental protection agency was created late 1970 -
http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/time_machine/time_machine_date_test.php?begYear=1990&endYear=2000' >electric cars </a>
In the 1990 Los Angeles car show General Motors unveiled their first electric car design avalible in 1995