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Thomas Newcomen
Newcomen makes furst usable steam engine but it is not used because it was ineffiecent and expensive to make. -
James Watt
Watt creates a better more effiecient version of a steam engine compared to Newcomen's and it sparks a new steam relied period in Europe. -
William Murdock/James Watt
Murdock, with the help of his boss, Watt, burn coal near William's home to fuel his lights and his machines. -
Robert Trevithick
Robert creates first idea for a steam powered train. Although revolutionary, the plan is abandoed because of lack of money and effieceincy. -
Robert Fulton
Thanks to the steam engine, the steam boat is created, becoming one of the most popular modes of transportation in Britian. -
Matthew Faraday
Proposes the first principles of a possible electric powered motor by cdemostrating electro-magnetic rotations to the scientific community. -
Faraday
Discovering electic currents, lead Faraday to begin building Electric engines and Generators. -
Edwin Drake
Drake finds the most plentiful resource, oil, in Pennsylvania. Oil would go on to power mostly any engine or generator just up until modern times. -
Thomas Edison
Edison invents the light bulb, the gateway to the modern idea of how to bring light to homes, streets and other places. It runs prley on electricity. -
Benz
Invents first automobile to run on an internal-combustion engine. This was improved by far steam engines and electric ones. -
Rudolph Diesel
Invents diesel fuel. This would become the prime candidate to run most engines and generators everywhere for a century.