Emptech

• When did Benjamin Franklin ran his famous kite experiment?

  1752
• A prominent American scientist and one of the America's founding father

  Benjamin Franklin
• Franklin tied a key to a kite string during a thunderstorm and proved that statistics electricity and lightning were one and the same thing
• What is the primary goal of people in 1700s?

  Primary goal of lightning their homes in a cheap and safe way
• When did Michael Faraday realized that a electric current could be produced by passing a magnet through a copper wire?

  1831
• Who realized that an electric current could be produced by passing a magnet through a copper wire?

  Michael Faraday
• Where electricity is converted into motion

  Electric motor
• Where motion is converted into electricity

  Generator
• Where did Thomas Edison brought to life the world's first incandescent electric light bulb?

  In 1879
• Who's scientist brought to life the world's first incandescent electric light bulb?

  Thomas Edison
• Who saw an opportunity in the early 1900s to bring together mass efficiencies in production and consumption?

  Samuel Insull
• He consolidated all the smaller generators and chose to generate electricity by bigger and more efficient generators manufactured by general electric.

  Samuel Insull
• Who did create new electricity pricing plans?

  Samuel Insull
• 2 types of renewable energy

  Wind power and hydropower
• This discovery came an increase in carbon footprint and the emission of green house gases

  The shift to alternative & renewable energies
• Discovery of generating electricity by bigger and more efficient generators manufactured by general electric.

  The world's first modern power grid
• With their power wall series, families can store electricity and power from the grid that can be used during power outrages to help keep the lights, the air conditioner running and the fridge cool.
• In this discovery, families can store electricity and power from the grid that can be used during power outrages to help keep the lights, the air conditioner running and the fridge cool

  Tesla motors-electric cars & batteries