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  • Coal

    Coal
    Coal was discovered near Richmnd, VA
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  • ben's experiment

    ben's experiment
    Thomas Francois Dalibard stole Benjamin Franklins idea and conduted an experiment using a 40 foot tall iron rod instead of a kite and failed.
  • Key to a string of a kite

    Key to a string of a kite
    Benjamin (ben) Franklin tied a key to a kite string during a thunderstorm and proved that static electricity and lighting were the same.
  • the first battery

    the first battery
    Alessandro Volta invented the first electric battery sometime in the year of 1800.
  • engine that run of ethanol and turpentine.

    engine that run of ethanol and turpentine.
    Samuel Morey developed an engine that run of ethanol and turpentine.
  • Electric car

    Electric car
    Robert Anderson bulit an electric car between 1832-39.
  • X-rays

    X-rays
    Wilhelm Roentgen, German Physicist, discovers X-rays and it won him the first nobel prize in physics.
  • Henry Ford bulit a Quadricycle

    Henry Ford bulit a Quadricycle
    Henry Ford bulit his 1st automobile, quadricycle, to run on pure ethanol.
  • Rutherford and Soddy

    Rutherford and Soddy
    sometime in 1901 they published the theory of radioactive decay.
  • the first dry stram geothermal plant

    the first dry stram geothermal plant
    Prince Piero Ginori Conti tested the first geothermal power generator on 4 July 1904, at the Larderello dry steam field in Italy.Later, in 1911, the world's first geothermal power plant was built there.
  • Rutherford made a new discovery

    Rutherford made a new discovery
    Rutherford discovered the nucleus of the atom.