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Energy Use in US

  • Electricity

    Electricity
    Benjamin Franklin helped discover electricity by using a kite, a key, and a storm to realize that lightning and electric sparks were the same thing.
  • Electric Generator

    Electric Generator
    Michael Faraday invented the first electric generator in 1831
  • Electric motor

    Electric motor
    Thomas Davenport invented the electric motor which is used still today.
  • Fuel Cell

    Fuel Cell
    Sir William Robert Grove created the first fuel cell in 1839.
  • Electric Telegraph

    Electric Telegraph
    Samuel Morse created the electronic telegraph which sends messages over long distances.
  • Light bulb

    Light bulb
    Thomas Edison invented the light bulb in 1879. Edison began his research of the light bulb back in 1878. In October of 1879 Edison constructed an experiment that was the light bulb which burned for 13.5 hours.
  • Induction Coil

    Induction Coil
    Nikola Tesla invented induction coil which sends and receives radio waves.
  • Wind Turbine

    Wind Turbine
    The wind turbine was invented by professor Charles F. Bush in Cleveland, Ohio. He builds a 12kW wind turbine to charge batteries in his mansion.
  • Hydroelectric

    Hydroelectric
    In 1895 the Edward Dean Adams Power Plant was created which was the world's largest hydroelectric development.
  • Solar Panels

    Solar Panels
    Gerald Pearson discovered in 1953 that he could create a better working solar cell by using silicon, His two colleagues the first efficient working solar cell.