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Energy Usage Throughout Time

By Birchgirl

  • First Steam Engine

    First Steam Engine
    Thomas Newcomen invented the first steam engine, probably his greatest acheivement, developed in about 1710.

  • Discovery of Uranium

    Discovery of Uranium
    Martin Klaproth, a German chemist analyzes a shiny black mineral known as pitchblend and identifies the element uranium.

  • First Prototype Steam Locomotive

    First Prototype Steam Locomotive
    Richard Trevithick build the first prototype steam locomotive. The world's first locomotive-hauled railway journey took place as Trevithick's unnamed steam locomotive hauled a train along the tramway of the Penydarren Ironworks, in Merthyr Tydfil in Wales

  • First Law of Thermodynamics

    First Law of Thermodynamics
    Hermann von Helmholtz postulates the first law of thermodynamics: Energy can neither be created or destroyed, only transfered or converted.

  • First Light Bulb!!

    First Light Bulb!!
    Thimas Edison successfully prototypes his first electric light bulb.

  • Fateful Plunge

    Fateful Plunge
    Winston Churchill converts the British navy from coal to oil.

  • First Successful Fuel Cell

    First Successful Fuel Cell
    Francis Bacon successfully demostrates that hydrogen and oxygen combine in a fuel cell to produce electricity.

  • Manhattan Project

    Manhattan Project
    The United States Government initiates the Manhattan Project, a top-secret program to develop the atomic bomb. Aside fro the bomb, the project furthered the understanding of the atomic theory, controlled nuclear reactions using uranium, and ultimately accelerated the introduction of commercial nuclear reactors.

  • OPEC

    OPEC
    OPEC, the Organization of Oil Exporting Countries formed in Baghdad.

  • Exxon Valdez

    Exxon Valdez
    Supertanker Exxon Valdez runs agroundnear the Alaskan coastline creating the largest oil spill in history. The pulbic's already negative impression of the oil industry worsens.