Energy in the United States

By runnerlover18

  • Giovanni Branca

    Giovanni Branca
    Giovanni Branca, an Italian architect, designs and builds an early turbine cosisting of a boiler that moves a wooden wheel by directing steam, via a spout, to the wheel's blades.

  • Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin
    Benjamin Franklin discovers that lightning is electricity, which opens the door for the development of electricity.

  • 1760-1830

    1760-1830
    The Industrial Revolution begins, creating a more machine-based economy, which required people to begin using more energy.

  • 1800s

    1800s
    Coal becomes the main fuel for the railway system and for homes.

  • Maryland

    Maryland
    Baltimore, Maryland lights its street lights with coal and is the first city to do so.

  • Micheal Faraday

    Micheal Faraday
    Michael Faraday creates the first electric motor.

  • Edwin Drake

    Edwin Drake
    Edwin Drake first drills for oil in Pennsylvania and is successful!
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    Century

  • Henry Ford

    Henry Ford
    Henry Ford produces the first car that can run on either gasoline or ethanol.

  • Refrigerator

    Refrigerator
    The first electric refrigerator is invented.

  • Shell

    Shell
    The nations first modern petroleum refinery is founded by Shell in California.

  • Nuclear Energy

    Nuclear energy becomes the second largest source of electricity in the United States.