Electrical Energy History

Answer the following questions:

1. The first source of energy was _________________. It Provided two types of energy

 ___________________________and___________________________.

2. Before 1850, the main source of for heating, cooking and powering railway engines was

 ___________________________

3. 500 BC the Chinese used ___________________________ as a source of energy to remove salt from sea water.

4. From about 1850 to 1945 ___________________________ was the main fuel source.

 ___________________________was also important and ___________________________ and were being used less.

5. For most of the 1900's _________________and _________________ were our main fuel sources.

6.___________________________ was used more in the late 1900's

7. ___________________________ invented the lightning rod which protects buildings, homes, and ships from lightning damage from a strike.

8. ___________________________ built the first electric motor, generator, and transformer.

9. ___________________________ invented the manufacturing process for the carbon filament to improve the light bulb.

10.___________________________was the first person to write a book on electric lighting.

11. ___________________________ most famous invention was the incandescent light bulb.

12. In 1743, ___________________________ observed that storms travel in an opposite direction than their winds.

13.___________________________ discovered that electricity could be made by moving a magnet inside a wire coil.

14.___________________________ developed and patented the threaded socket for his improved light bulb.