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No date given. The europeans use rivers to power mills that crushed grains and other materials. Could not fit BC on th date but it is before the chinses coal one.
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No date given. The dutch create multipurpose windmills to due multiple things such as grinding grains. This is a early source of wind energy.
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No date given. The English people invent the steam engine to pump out gases in mines. It was coal powered.
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No date given. In Fredonia , New York William Hart dug a natural gas well in a creek and used it to light a lamp.
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No date given. A frenchmen by the name of Augustine Mouchot
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The first electric plant is built by Thomas Edison that supplied a square mile area with electricity of course with a price.
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No date given. A windmill that can generate electrity is built in Ohio. Its normal wattage capacity was 12 thousend watts. It powered the builder's house.
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No date given. Henry ford built a model T that could run on either gasoline or ethanol.
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The hoover dam is built on the border or Nevada and Arizona . It provided the most electricity in the world ( in hydro-electric terms) until 1948.
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A missionary travels to China and discovers and reports that the chinese were using a " black stone " that burned well. Also no specific data and could not fit bc in the date area.
