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  • Solar energy collector created

    Invented by Horace De'Saussure

  • Light to electricity findings published

    Edmund Bequerel published these findings

  • First Photovoltaic

    Built by Edmund Bequerel

  • First solar panel

  • Solar Collector Invention

    William J. Bailley invents a solar collector. he later improves his current designs.

  • Solar Water Heating

    Frank Bridgers designed the first commercial office building that uses solar water heating

  • First solar cell

    Calvin Fuller, Gerald Pearson and Daryl Chaplin create the first silicon solar cell able to generate enough power to run common appliances

  • Solar in space

    Vanguard I became the first space satellite to use solar cell technology.

  • Light into electricity

  • SERF created

    The National Renewable Energy Laboratory's Solar Energy Research Facility (SERF), opened in Golden, Colorado.

  • Residential solar panel selling

    Selling of residential solar panels begins.

  • First solar panel building

    This is a solar panel building, the whole building is covered with solar panels

  • First solar car

    The first solar car invented was a tiny 15-inch vehicle created by William G. Cobb of General Motors.