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Ben Franklin's Kite
Ben prooved thar lightning is electricity based through an experiment with a key and a kite -
Eddison creates efficient lightbulb
Eddison created the first lightbulb with a long-lasting filament -
First Automatic Windmill
generates electricity on its own and wascreated by Charles F. Bush -
first geothermal heater
In Boise, Idaho, the first district heating system was powered by geothermal energy -
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Henry Ford's Assembly Line
allowed for automobiles to be mass produced, leading to a great increase in use of gasoline and oil -
Theory of Relativity
developed by Albert Einstein. Theory states that enrgy equals mass times the speed of light squared. -
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Project Manhattan
led to the construction of the nuclear bomb and use of it on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, Japan -
Nuclear Reactor Energy
Electricity was first generated from a nuclear reactor in Idaho -
Us Department of Energy Established
created by Jimmy Carter in response to an oil crisis -
Modern Theory of Antimatter
proposed in a paper by Paul Dirac by looking at the Schrodinger Wave Equation