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the increasing demand of energy since the 18 century
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James Watt invents an improved steam engine.
Watt's new engine used a valve to allow the hot steam that had been used through to the condenser. This new design was four times more powerful and was later adapted to a rotary style to move objects on wheels. These early advances allowed for the expansion of the Industrial Revolution. -
The opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway
The Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&M) opened on 15 September 1830. Work on the L&M had begun in the 1820s, to connect the major industrial city of Manchester with the nearest deep water port at the Port of Liverpool, 35 miles (56 km) away. -
First oil well is drilled in Titusville
Drake to drill an oil well in Titusville, Pennsylvania, which produced oil on Aug. 27, 1859. The well was drilled to a depth of 69.5 feet, and it initially produced 25 barrels a day, the first well to produce oil in commercial quantities. -
Siemens built the first electric train
The first electric passenger train was presented by Werner von Siemens at Berlin in 1879. The locomotive was driven by a 2.2 kW, series-wound motor, and the train, consisting of the locomotive and three cars, reached a speed of 13 km/h. -
Edison lights up a street in Menlo Park using incandescent light bulbs
n the first public demonstration of his incandescent lightbulb, American inventor Thomas Alva Edison lights up a street in Menlo Park, New Jersey. Although the first incandescent lamp had been produced 40 years earlier, no inventor had been able to come up with a practical design until Edison embraced the challenge in the late 1870s. After countless tests, he developed a high-resistance carbon-thread. -
One of the first hydroelectric power plant inaugurated in Niagara Falls
Nikola Tesla and George Westinghouse built the first hydro-electric power plant in Niagara Falls and started the electrification of the world. Adam's Power Station (Power House No. 3), the only remains of the old Niagara Falls Power Plant, may become a science museum. -
First electric street lighting in Salamanca
Messrs. Moneo and son and Company propose to the City Council the placement of four electric lights during the Fairs and Parties. The newspaper El Progreso of September 10, 1884, published a note on the first test of electric lighting in Salamanca. «On Monday at eight o'clock at night the electric lighting flashed for the first time in Alamedilla. At the entrance to the promenade, a spotlight shone, another in the center of the pavilion's roundabout, and another at each of its four entrances. -
Karl Benz designed the world's first automobile
The first stationary gasoline engine developed by Carl Benz was a one-cylinder two-stroke unit. Benz had so much commercial success with this engine that he was able to devote more time to his dream of creating a lightweight car powered by a gasoline engine, in which the chassis and engine formed a single unit. -
World's first nuclear power station built in Obninsk.
Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant was built in the "Science City" of Obninsk about 110 km southwest of Moscow, Soviet Union. Connected to the power grid in June 1954, Obninsk was the first grid-connected nuclear power plant in the world. The plant is also known as APS-1 Obninsk (Atomic Power Station 1 Obninsk) -
Spain’s first nuclear power plant
The José Cabrera Nuclear Power Plant (better known as Zorita) was the first nuclear power plant built in Spain, located next to the Tagus River in the municipality of Almonacid de Zorita, in the province of Guadalajara, and belonged to the Unión Eléctrica Madrileña company. Se denomina así debido al catedrático ingeniero de minas José Cabrera Felipe, uno de los primeros promotores de la construcción de centrales nucleares en España. -
The world's worst nuclear accident happened at the Chernobyl plant
The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred on Saturday 26 April 1986, at the No. 4 reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in the north of Ukraine. It is considered the worst nuclear disaster in history. This accident started with the set of a new reactor called RBMK-type.
