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'Thomas Edison built the first commercial electric utility near Wall Street.'
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"Charles F. Brush develops the world's first windmill that can generate electricity."
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"John D. Grant drilled a geothermal well and ran a small direct-current generator which was used to provide electricity for lighting The Geysers resort."
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"Albert Einstein writes President Franklin D. Roosevelt, alerting the President to the importance of research on nuclear chain reactions and the possibility that research might lead to developing powerful bombs. Einstein notes that Germany has stopped the sale of uranium and German physicists are engaged in uranium research."
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"Congress passes the Synthetic Liquid Fuels Act authorizing the Bureau of Mines to build energy research laboratories."
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"In accordance with the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, all atomic energy activities are transferred to the newly created Atomic Energy Commission."
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"President Truman approves a $1.4 billion expansion of Atomic Energy Commission facilities to produce uranium and plutonium for nuclear weapons."
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"The Experimental Breeder Reactor No. 1 located at the National Reactor Testing Station near Arco, Idaho, produces the first electric power from a nuclear reactor."
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First Solar Power System Developed in France to Produce Steam to Drive Machinery.
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This dam was built to obtain more energy to fuel the economy. To this day it is still being worked on. This dam caused many environmental problems.
