Pioneers in Energy
Benjamin Franklin - 1706-1790
Benjamin Franklin was a man of many talents and interests.
His natural curiosity about things and the way they work made him try to
find ways to make them work better.
Ben did not "invent" electricity.
He did, however, invent the lightning rod which
protected buildings and ships from lightning damage.
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Rudolpf Diesel - 1858-1913
Diesel put much effort into a design for an expansion engine that ran on ammonia.
Ammonia was also the working fluid in the refrigerator.
He later found that air, when highly compressed, could aid in running an engine.
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Thomas Edison - 1847-1931
Edison's major innovation was the first industrial research lab,
which was built in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
It was the first institution set up with the specific purpose of
producing constant technological innovation and improvement.
Edison did not invent the first electric light bulb,
but instead invented the first commercially practical incandescent light.
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Henry Ford - 1863-1947
Henry Ford was the founder of the Ford Motor Company
and father of modern assembly lines used in mass production.
His introduction of the Model T automobile revolutionized
transportation and American industry.
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Nikola Tesla- 1856-1943
Tesla was a world-renowned inventor, physicist, mechanical engineer
and electrical engineer. He is best known for his revolutionary work in,
and numerous contributions to, the discipline of
electricity and magnetism in the late 19th and early 20th century.
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Albert Einstein - 1879 - 1955
Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist who is widely
considered one of the greatest physicists of all time.
While best known for the theory of relativity
(and specifically mass-energy equivalence, E=mc2),
he was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for his 1905
(Annus Mirabilis) explanation of the photoelectric effect and "for his services to Theoretical Physics".
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