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Generating electricity
In 1800, Alessandro Volta developed the voltaic pile. -
1839
Alexandre Edmond Becquerel discovered how electricity can be generated from sunlight. -
MARCH 10, 1876
Alexander Graham Bell invented his first version of the telephone on March 10, 1876 -
JUNE 7, 1892
George T. Sampson creates the clothes dryer. -
AUGUST 14, 1941
Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena puts in for the patent of creating color television. -
APRIL 5, 1944
The Synthetic Liquid Fuels Program allows the Bureau of Mines to build energy research laboratories. -
JULY 16, 1945
The Trinity Test: United States exploded the first man-made nuclear bomb -
AUGUST 1, 1946
Truman signs the Atomic Energy Act into law for the development and control of atomic energy. -
Computer Mouse
Douglas Engelbart creates the first computer mouse -
Three Gorges Dam Project
The Three Gorges Dam Project begins
