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3000 BC Mules first used for transporting cargo in the middle East. One if the first energy sources was animal power.
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3000 BC Ancient Chinese, Egyptians, Phoenicians, Greeks, and Romans used solar power to successful evaporate salt water to produce salt as well as to dry their crops.
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1000-851 BC Chinese used coal as energy fuel-- one of the first uses of fossil fuels.
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Plutarch writes about "eternal fires," probably a reference to natural gas.
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Romans use coal for heating
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Greeks and Romans use magnifying glasses to burn the sails of enemy ships
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Anasazi Indians build cliff dwellings with southern exposures, providing passive solar heating and cooling
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Italian scientists Averoni and Targioni use a large glass and the sun's rays to melt a diamond
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Steam pump invented by Thomas Savery
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Thomas Edison invents the telegraph machine
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Charles Brush, American, builds first modern automatically operating wind turbine
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This actually accured from 1 million BC to 1991
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This actually accured in 1 million BC when Homo Erectus discovered that He could contro the being of fire.
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Solomon de Caux constructs a solar water pump
