Energy current
Classification
Energy current is electricity, water, and wind. Power that comes from flowing material is energy current.
Inventions from the ALPHABET ERA Era
Invention | Description | Year | Inventor | Country |
Water wheel | water powered wheel mill/device | 50 BCE | Vitruvius | Rome |
Invention from the NUMBERS ERA Era
Invention | Description | Year | Inventor | Country |
Windmill | milling function powered by wind | 650 AD | Persia |
Inventions from the PRINT ERA Era
Invention | Description | Year | Inventor | Country |
Lightning rod | electrical conductor | 1749 AD | Benjamin Franklin | USA |
Gas turbine | for electricity | 1791 AD | John Barber | UK |
Battery | voltaic pile zinc-silver | 1800 AD | Alessandro Volta | Italy (27) |
Electromagnet | magnet from electric current | 1820 AD | Hans Oerstoed | UK |
Electric DC motor | first electric motor | 1821 AD | Michael Faraday | UK |
Inventions from the WIRED ERA Era
Invention | Description | Year | Inventor | Country |
Hydrogen fuel cell | 1838 | William Robert Grove | UK | |
Solar cell | photovoltaic cell | 1839 | Edmond Becquerel | France. (66) |
Francis water turbine | 1849 | James Francis | UK/USA (69) | |
Lead acid battery | rechargeable | 1859 | Gaston Plante | France |
Dry cell battery | alkaline battery | 1866 | Georges Leclanche | France |
Free jet water turbine | 90% efficiency(Pelton wheel) | 1880 | Lester Pelton | USA |
AC induction motor | 1881 | Nikola Tesla | USA (60) | |
Electric fan | 1882 | Schuyler Skaats Wheeler | USA | |
Electric iron | 1882 | Henry W. Seely | USA | |
Steam turbine | 89% world electricity | 1884 | Charles Parsons | USA (44) |
AC transformer | 1884 | Karoly Zipernowsky, Otto Blathy, Miksa Deri | Austria/Hungary | |
Wind turbine | electricity | 1888 | Charles Brush, James Blyth | USA |
AC electric power | 1888 | Nikola Tesla | USA (12) | |
Fuse | 1890 | Thomas Alva Edison | USA | |
Tesla coil | transformer | 1891 | Nikola Tesla | USA |
Inventions from the WIRELESS ERA Era
Invention | Description | Year | Inventor | Country |
Blow dryer | heated air | 1920 | Racine Universal Motor Co. | USA |
Blender | high speed food mixer | 1922 | Stephen Poplawski | USA |
Electric shaver | men's shaver | 1923 | Jacob Schick | USA |
Fluorescent lamp | 1926 | Edmund Germer | Germany | |
Quartz clock | more accurate timekeeping | 1927 | Warren Marrison, J.W. Horton, Bell labs | USA |
Electric pH meter | acidity measure | 1930 | Arnold Beckman | USA |
Electric can opener | powered daisy wheel | 1931 | Preston West | USA |
Electric bug zapper | electrocution of mosquitoes and flies | 1932 | William M. Frost, William Broderick Herms | USA |
Electric steam iron | thermostat | 1934 | Max Skolnik | USA |
Electric clothes dryer | heated tumbling | 1935 | J. Ross Moore | USA |
Electric air conditioner | household | 1939 | Willis Carrier | USA |
Electric toothbrush | 1954 | Phillipe Guy Woog | Switzerland | |
Gel electrophoresis | separation | 1955 | Oliver Smithies | Canada |
Modern alkaline battery | long lasting | 1957 | Lewis Urry | Canada |
MOS transistor, MOSFET | world's most produced device | 1959 | Mohammed Atalla, Dawon Kahnb, Bell labs | USA |
Integrated circuit | silicon monolithic | 1959 | Jack Kilby, Robert Noyce, Masatoshi Shima | USA |
Invisible fence | pet containment | 1973 | Richard Peck | USA |
Southern blot gel electrophoresis | DNA analysis | 1975 | Edwin Mellor Southern | USA |
Wind farm | air current creates electric current | 1980 | Fausto Veranzio | USA |
Electronic tolls, E-Z pass | for vehicles | 1986 | Mario Cardullo | USA |
Inventions from the INTERNET ERA Era
Invention | Description | Year | Inventor | Country |
Practical economical lithium ion battery | rechargeable | 1991 | Asahi Kasei, SONY | Japan |
Universal serial bus | USB | 1999 | Ajay Bhatt | India/USA |
E cigarette | electronic nicotine delivery system | 2004 | Ruyan Co. | China |
PowerBuoy | ocean wave energy electrical generator | 2007 | Ocean Power Technologies | USA |