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Pumpin' Iron .. err, water.
The actual date is unknown, but it was in the year 1712 that the first steam engine was developed in England to pump water out of coal mines. The first machine made 12 strokes, pumping about 10 gallons of water per stroke. -
Kites in a thunderstorm..
Benjamin Franklin stood outside holding a kite with a key tied to it, and a metal rod in the middle. When lightening stuck the kite, it's energy traveled down the rod and charged the key, to which when Franlkin touched it, he got shocked. Thus proving his theory of electricy. -
NO MORE WHALE OIL.
Once again, the actual date is unknown but the event happened somewhere in the 1830s. However, in the 1830s, an ethanol blend becomes popular lamp fuel in the United States, thus replacing whale oil. -
... Let there be light.
Thomas Edison first succesfully tested his lightbulb. -
Gone with the wind.
Charles F. Brush built the first automatically operated wind turbine for electricty production in Cleveland, Ohio. -
From the ground, UP.
Prince Piero Ginori Conti tested the first geothermal power plant, which successfully lit four lightbulbs. This historic geothermal power plant is located in Larderello, Italy. Others tried to copy it, but this was the only geothermal plant until 1958. The picture is the actual power plant in Larderelly, Italy. -
Hoover Dam
On May 29, 1935, the Hoover Dam was finished on the Colorado River in Arizona. It was the largest producer of hydroelectricty until 1948. -
The price got low, low, low...
The exact date is unknown, but the solar cells began to lower in price and become cost effective for the land in the 1970s. -
Wind energy in the water?
On April 22, 2009, the first ever framework for wind energy development on the US outer continental shelf is announced! -
It's a FRACKING miracle!
EPA issues first ever clean air rules for natural gas produced by fracking (hydraulic fracturing).
