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Thomas Newcomen developed the first steam engine in England to pump water out of coal mines
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Benjamin Franklin conducted an experiment to prove that lightning is electricity by flying a kite in a storm that appeared capable of becoming a lightning storm.
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First commercial natural gas well drilled in Fredonia, N.Y., by William Hart.
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Robert Bunsen invents "Bunsen burner" concept
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Oil is struck for the first time in the Middle East at Masjid-i-Suleiman in Persia (Iran)
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Hoover dam was bulit on the Colorado River in Arizona in 1935. Construction began in 1931. The dam was the largest producer of hydroelectricity in the world until 1948
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This nuclear accident took place at Chernobyl at the former soviet union. The clean up took over 200,000 recovery workers.
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President Barack Obama announced the largest single energy grid modernization investment in U.S. history. This was made to have a stronger and more eficent electric system. The U.S invested $3.4 billion in the energy grid
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EPA Issues First Ever Clean Air Rules for Natural Gas Produced by Fracking. This helps yied VOC's (volatile organic compounds) that are emited from over 11,000 new hydraulically fractured gas wells each year
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First Electric Plant Built by Thomas Edison in New York. He flipped the swtich at 3 pm to build Americas first power plant
