Energy Use

By ijustspilledmywater

  • Lightening Strikes the Kite

    On this day, Benjamin Franklin tied a key to the end of a kite string He figured out that ligthening was just electricity.

  • Discovery of Natural Gas

    This was the day that natural gas was discovered.

  • Modern Oil Industry

    Discovery of oil fields in Texas

  • Standard OIl Disolved by US Congress

    COmpany had a monopoly

  • Geothermal

    First Geothermal power plant

  • Wind Turbines

    First wind turbines

  • Hoover dam

    The Hoover Dam is completed

  • Natural Gas

    First federal regulation of natural gas industry

  • Controlled Nuclear Reaction

    First controlled Nuclear cahin reaction

  • First Nuclear Power Plant