Power Innovations
- Condensing steam engine improvements: James Watt (1736–1819)
- Coal-gas lighting: William Murdoch (1754–1839)
- The Stirling heat engine: Rev. Robert Stirling (1790–1878)
- Carbon brushes for dynamos: George Forbes (1849–1936)
- The Clerk cycle gas engine: Sir Dugald Clerk (1854–1932)
- The wave-powered electricity generator: by South African Engineer Stephen Salter in 1977
- The Pelamis Wave Energy Converter ("red sea snake" wave energy device): Richard Yemm, 1998
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