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Ben Franklin's Famous Kite
Supposedly, Ben Franklin flew a kite in a lightning storm and extracted sparks from it, thus proving that lightning was in fact electricity. -
US Investment Funds First Major Oil Refineries (in Romania)
1856-57 -
Thomas Edison Invents Light Bulb and Generator
Newpapers report the "Era of Electricity" is born. -
Niagara Falls Hydroelectric Project
The plant is designed to send electricity to Buffalo, NY. This is the beginning of long distance electrical movement from a central source. -
Precursor to Fluorsescent Bulb Patented
Peter Hewitt invented the "mercury vapor light" -
Electric Refrigerator Invented
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First Nuclear Submarine
The USS Nautilus -
First Nuclear Power Plant
In Shippingport, PA on the Ohio river -
First Successful Geothermal Plant in the US
Pacific Gas and Electric opened it at The Geysers in California -
NIF Opened
National Ignition Facility is designed to test whether nuclear fusion could possibly create more energy than was put in to start the reaction.
