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Solar Energy
Italian scientists Averoni and Targioni use a large glass and the sun's rays to melt a diamond -
First Natural Gas
First natural gas well drilled in Fredonia, New York -
Solar Energy
Swedish born American john Ericsson builds a hot-air engine powered by the sun -
Geothermal drilling
Drilling for geothermal water at Larderello, Italy intensifies due to new methods -
Electricity
Thomas Edison invents the telegraph machine. -
Wind Energy
Charles Brush, American, builds first modern automatically operating wind turbine -
Geothermal Plant
First Geothermal Plant in Italy -
Wind Energy
French engineer, George Darrieus, patents the wind turbine bearing his name. -
Nuclear bombs
Manhattan Project is formed to secretly build the atomic bomb before the Germans -
Hyrogen
Chicago adds hydrogen cell buses to mass transit
