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Benjamin Franklin flew a kite with an iron key attached during a thunder storm to prove that lightning was electrical.
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Around 1800, the first eletric battery was invented Alessandro Volta.
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The inventor, Thomas Jefferson, preformed the first successful test of a practical incandescent electric light bulb.
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The first flrorescnet light bulb was invented.
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The Wright brothers made the first sustained manned flight in their plane for 12 seconds.
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Henery Ford first invented the Model T car in 1912.
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In 1927, the first wind turbine was built in the US.
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The first light emmiting diode was reported.
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In 1941, the first silicon cell solar panel was invented.
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The first nuclear reactor was built.