Energy in the US

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
07/15/1806	Coal-gas is sold
06/15/1850	Commercial Oil Drilling Begins
09/30/1882	First Hydroelectic Central Station	On September 30, 1882, the first centrally located electric lighting system using the Edison system in the West and the first hydroelectric central station in the world began operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin.
01/01/1888	First wind turbine in America	Charles F. Brush built the first automatically operated wind turbine Cleaveland, Ohio. It was 60 feet tall, and weighed 80,000 pounds.
08/02/1939	"Powerful Bombs"	Albert Einstein writes to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, telling him the importance of research on nuclear reactions and the possibility that research might lead to developing powerful bombs.
08/09/1945	Uranium Bomb	The gun model uranium bomb, called Little Boy, is dropped on Hiroshima, Japan.
01/01/1950	Oil is the most used source of energy	Thanks to the popularity of cars, oil becomes the most used source of energy.
01/01/1952	First Nuclear Reactor	World's first nuclear reactor for commercial power is in Shippingport, PA.
08/05/1977	First Secretary of Energy	James R. Schlesinger is sworn in as first Secretary of Energy.
01/01/1999	Geothermal Power Plant	California's geothermal power plants provided 54.9% of the State’s electricity.