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Supposedly, Ben Franklin flew a kite in a lightning storm and extracted sparks from it, thus proving that lightning was in fact electricity.
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1856-57
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Newpapers report the "Era of Electricity" is born.
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The plant is designed to send electricity to Buffalo, NY. This is the beginning of long distance electrical movement from a central source.
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Peter Hewitt invented the "mercury vapor light"
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The USS Nautilus
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In Shippingport, PA on the Ohio river
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Pacific Gas and Electric opened it at The Geysers in California
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National Ignition Facility is designed to test whether nuclear fusion could possibly create more energy than was put in to start the reaction.
