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Colonial Energy
In the colonial times in American history, energy usage was very moodest in comparison to the energy demeands we have today. Wood, straw, and dried dung were used for energy when the sun was not out. -
Industrial Revolution
In the late 17th century, population started to increase massively as America was quickly expanding. This meant that to satisfy the needs of everyone that more energy had to be used and from different sources. Coal began to grow as a major source of industrial energy to burn and make vehicles perform -
Thomas Edison
in 1880, Thomas Edison's plant in New York City provides the first electric light to Wall Street and the New York Times. -
Petroleum
By the late 1880s, petroleum was starting to become much more popular as it was used to make cars work as Henry Ford began to gain ground in perfectinghis brandname car. -
Hydroelectricity
Years later in Appleton, Wisconson, the first hydroelectric palnt went on-line. At first these wheels had turned to grind corn and now they were grinding out electricity. -
United States first nuclear bomb
On this day, the United States tests the first nuclear bomb at the Trinity Bomb site in central New Mexico. This power would open Pandora's Box for the world's new power source over the next decades. -
Shippingport Atomic Power Station
On this day, Shippingport was the world's first full-scale atomic electric power plant that was devoted primarily to peacetime usage. -
Electric Cars
In 2008, a wave of electric plug-in cars came into the united states. This has since innovated the way people think about the way the travel on the roads. -
Solar Panels
in 2016, the global demand for soalr panels/energy wil be likely to be a lot higher than ever before. the energy is harnessed through sunlight and is much more efficient and safer for the enviornment than some other energy sources previously founded. -
Cell Phones
In 1983, Ameritech launched the first generation phone service
