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Energy in the US

By NinaGalea
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    US Energy

  • Wood

    Wood
    Throughout the 1700th Century and before Wood as the primary energy source.

  • Coal Mining

    Coal Mining
    Coal mining begins.

  • Lightning Rod

    Lightning Rod
    Benjamin Franklin shows that lightening is electricity.

  • Electric Distribution

    Electric Distribution
    Thomas Edison creates an electric distribution system.

  • Kicking Down the Well

    Kicking Down the Well
    Shown are two men standing at the first natural gas well in the United States, in Fedonia, New York.

  • Wind-Powered Turbine

    Wind-Powered Turbine
    Charles Brush creates Ohio's first wind-powered turbine in the winter of 1887.

  • First Natural Gas Line

    First Natural Gas Line
    From Inida to Chicago it was 120 miles.

  • First Nuclear Reactor

    First Nuclear Reactor
    Worlds first nuclear reactor, B Reactor.

  • Solar Voltiac Cells

    Solar Voltiac Cells
    Solar voltaic cells were invented by D.M. Chaplin, C.S. Fuller, and G.L. Pearson.

  • Hydrogen Cell Busses

    Hydrogen Cell Busses
    Chicago adds hydrogen cell busses to the main trnasit system.