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Man started making fire with the sun's rays.
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A Greek inventor destroyed a ship with the sun's rays using mirrors
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Horace de Saussure invented the first solar powered oven.
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Edmund Becquerel Learned that materials make a creation of voltage when exposed to sunlight
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Willoughby Smith discovered photoconductivity in solid selenium
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William Grylls Adams and his student, Richard Evans Day, were the first to observe an electrical they put 2 electrodes onto a plate of selenium and observed a tiny amount of electricity when the plate was exposed to light.
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An American inventor named Charles Fritts, was the first to come up with plans for how to make solar cells. His designs in the late 19th century were based on selenium wafers
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Albert Einstein formulated the photon theory of light, which describes how light can “liberate” electrons on a metal surface.
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A Polish scientist named Jan Czochralski discovered a method to grow single-crystal silicon. His discoveries laid the foundation for solar cells based on silicon.
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In the 70’s oil was starting to cost to much money because the price was doubled so scientist at Bell University tried to improve the solar cell.
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Three scientist from Bell Labs are credited with the world’s first photovoltaic solar cell. These are the men that made the first device that converted sunlight into electrical power.
