Wikipedia is a terrible science resource. In describing the invention of the theory there's no mention of any physical evidence showing something like 25 times the fuel to go five times as fast.

Quoting Wikipedia:"The terms kinetic energy and work in their present scientific meanings date back to the mid-19th century. Early understandings of these ideas can be attributed to Thomas Young, who in his 1802 lecture to the Royal Society, was the first to use the term energy to refer to kinetic energy in its modern sense, instead of vis viva."

Describing when scientists decided to stop using the silly term "living Force" isn't a very meaningful historical event. What evidence convinced scientists should be described and detailed.

Quoting Wikipedia:"Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis published in 1829 the paper titled Du Calcul de l'Effet des Machines outlining the mathematics of kinetic energy."

This is where the one half was added to the mathematics but there were no real world examples of kinetic energy doing work.

Quoting Wikipedia:"William Thomson, later Lord Kelvin, is given the credit for coining the term "kinetic energy" c. 1849–1851.[6][7] William Rankine, who had introduced the term "potential energy" in 1853, and the phrase "actual energy" to complement it,[8] later cites William Thomson and Peter Tait as substituting the word "kinetic" for "actual".[9]"

more trivia about verbiage... Not a single mention of the concept of momentum and how reliably it fit with human understanding of simple tools like levers and pulleys.

Quoting Wikipedia:"Overview: Energy occurs in many forms, including chemical energy, thermal energy, electromagnetic radiation, gravitational energy, electric energy, elastic energy, nuclear energy, and rest energy. "

Glaring omission regarding mechanical energy... Like the momentum of a flywheel... Also missing is weight and pressure and all the general forms of movement that are "energy" in the universe.

Quoting Wikipedia:"These can be categorized in two main classes: potential energy and kinetic energy. Kinetic energy is the movement energy of an object. Kinetic energy can be transferred between objects and transformed into other kinds of energy.[10]"

Using the word "kinetic" to describe both the concept of "active energy" and the non-momentum movement energy of 1/2 MV squared brakes literacy. The subject of active energy versus stored energy should be quite separate from the subject of momentum versus "kinetic energy".