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  • Electricity storage

    Electricity storage
    The Leiden jar -- the first practical way to store static electricity -- is invented at the same time by Pieter van Musschenborek and by Edwald Georg von Kleist. Van Musschenborek gets an electric shock when he first uses it, suggesting a connecting between electricity and lightning.

  • natural gas company

    natural gas company
    Baltimore, Md. became the first city in the U.S. to establish a gas company. Gas Light Company of Baltimore was organized to provide coal gas for lighting city streets. This was the first use of coal gas as an energy source in the United States.

  • Beach Pneumatic Underground Railway of New York City

    Beach Pneumatic Underground Railway of New York City
    Passenger traffic began on the first pneumatic subway invented by Alfred Ely Beach. The system, known as the "Beach Pneumatic Underground Railway of New York City," consisted of a 312 foot- long circular tube, 9 feet in diameter. The cars, carrying 22 passengers, were propelled by a blast of air from a rotary blower.

  • Television Transmission

    Television Transmission
    First successful long-distance television transmission was demonstrated. President Herbert Hoover office in Washington, DC, to the Bell Laboratories in New York.

  • Oil discovery

    Oil discovery
    Oil is discovered at Kirkuk in Iraq.

  • Oil-Petroleum

    Oil-Petroleum
    The first airplane flight using a diesel engine was made. The engine, manufactured by the Packard Motor Car Company, was used in a Stinson Detroiter Airplane. It was an air-cooled, 9- cylinder, 225 h.p. radial engine, and weighed 510 pounds.

  • Nuclear Weapon explosion

    Nuclear Weapon explosion
    U.S. explodes the first nuclear weapon at 5:30 a.m. local time at Alamogordo, N.M. On August 6, 1945, a different type of atomic bomb is dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, followed by another nuclear bomb on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945.

  • First atomic-powered submarine

    First atomic-powered submarine
    "U.S.S. Nautilus," the nation's first atomic-powered submarine, was launched at Electric Boat Company in Groton, Conn.

  • U.S. patent

    U.S. patent
    U.S. Patent # 2 780 765, was issued for the process on solar cell developed by Bell Laboratory.

  • Human's first steps on the Moon

    Human's first steps on the Moon
    Humans first steps on the Moon. Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins and Edwin Aldrin on the Apollo 11.