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Throughout the 1700th Century and before Wood as the primary energy source.
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Coal mining begins.
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Benjamin Franklin shows that lightening is electricity.
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Thomas Edison creates an electric distribution system.
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Shown are two men standing at the first natural gas well in the United States, in Fedonia, New York.
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Charles Brush creates Ohio's first wind-powered turbine in the winter of 1887.
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From Inida to Chicago it was 120 miles.
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Worlds first nuclear reactor, B Reactor.
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Solar voltaic cells were invented by D.M. Chaplin, C.S. Fuller, and G.L. Pearson.
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Chicago adds hydrogen cell busses to the main trnasit system.
