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Jan 1, 600
Roman Times
The first recordings of basic water use to make power or items move was in Roman Times. -
Jan 1, 1000
Middle Ages
The middle ages also carried on the use of using water to create energy. -
First Patent that used the ocean to create useable energy.
Girard Messers was the first person to patent the idea of using the ocean to create useable energy. He did this by having a raft acting as a buoy, the raft had a rope attached which pulled the object trhough the water. -
Little ideas before now
Before the 1970's very few ideas where thought of about using tides and currents as energy, one of the ideas were called a navigation buoy, the buoy had a hole in the bottom where the air would go in and out as the waves moved the buoy up and down. -
Period: to Jan 1, 600
Roman Times
In the Roman times where the first times in which they started to use the concept of using water to make energy.