3000 BC. Mules first used for transporting cargo in the Middle East. One of the first energy sources was animal power.
500
1200 BC. Early sailboats used in Polunesia for transportation over water in order to use wind power.
Jun 23, 600
3000 BC. Ancient Chisese, Egyptians, Phonecians, Greek, and Romans used solar power to successfully evaporate salt water to produce salt as well as to dry their crops.
Jun 23, 1000
1000-851 BC. Chinese probably used coat as fuel- one of the first uses of fossil fuels.
1629 - Italian architect, Giovanni Branca invents a primitire turbine consisting of a boiler with a spout to direct steam against wooden blades of a wheel.
1859 - Colonel Edwin Drake first drills for oil in the United States in Titusville, Pennsyvania.
1879 - Thomas A. Edison invents the first electric light bulb.
1952- World's first nuclear reactor for commercial power in Shippingport, PA.
1954 - The first successful silicon solar collectors were reported by American scientists.
1978 - OPEC oil embargo - drives fuel prices up.
1991 - Persian Gulf War highlights vulnerability of oil supply.
1 Million BC. Homo erectus learns how to control fire.
