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Modern humans and neanderthals split from a common ancestor, Homo heidelbergensis, around 500,000 years ago when the power of fire was first harnessed.

Electricity was first harnessed here in New Jersey by Thomas Edison, whose most important technological contribution was, arguably, neither the light bulb nor the phonograph, but the electric grid.

Some of these areas of the field have been understood as possibilities for the future almost since fission itself was first harnessed for the commercial production of power; these include fast breeder reactors, fusion and thorium.

Storing electricity efficiently, inexpensively and safely is a problem that has vexed the power industry since electricity was first harnessed.

Does it start, for instance, before the time in Roman Britain when the rivers were first harnessed to drive mills, or later, in the mid-17th century, when farmers created a complex of ditches and carrier streams to flood the surrounding water meadows?

At a time when electricity was first being harnessed and its applications were still in their infancy, Faraday was revealing deep truths about the interconnected nature of electricity with magnetism.

He was the first harness horse to win $1 million in a career, not in a year.

"When you diminish a 2CV's power there isn't much left". Yet the high sense of innovation that created this bug-eyed perambulator in the first place was recently harnessed by a Hollywood company that in February began bringing the cuddly 2CV to California.

It can be converted to biomass; alternatively, the high energy of the thioester bond can be harnessed first by phosphotransacetylase to produce acetyl phosphate and then by acetate kinase, which transfers the phosphate group to ADP, producing acetate and ATP.

The first Industrial Revolution was about harnessing steam power so that muscle could be replaced by machines.

On the second day, bees were harnessed again and after 2 h rest they were subjected to olfactory conditioning of SER [30].