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renewable Energy TIMELINE

THE BEGINNINGS

Paleolithic Age

Cavemen used wood or other biomass for heating and cooking

672 BC

Ancient Chinese used curved mirrors to start fires for warmth

1 BC

The first recorded water wheel in Greece

60 CE

Romans bulilt bathhouses around hot springs using them for heating water.

100-400 CE

Roman architect Vitruvius built bathhouses with glass windows facing south in order to use sunshine to heat water.

500-900

Persians developed windmills to mill grain and pump water.

1300

A small town in France built first recorded geothermal heating system.

1827

Benoit Fourneynor built the protype of a turbine

1839

Edmond Becquerel discovered photovoltaic effect ( converts light into electricity

1876

Nikolas Otto invented four-stroke internal combustion engine that runs on ethanol

1878

VS

William Amstrong built the first hydroelectric power plant.

1911

Piero Giroli Conti built the first commercial geothermal power plant.

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