Energy Use in the U.S.

By CatJack
  • Coal was used by the U.S.

    Coal was used by the U.S.

    Coal was first used by the U.S. as a fuel. The English found out that it could burn hotter and more than wood charcoal.
  • Coal generates electricity

    Coal generates electricity

    Coal was first used to generate electricity for homes and factories. Many had furnaces or stoves for cooking.
  • Streetlights were lit

    Streetlights were lit

    The first city in the United States to have street lights lit with fuel produced by coal was Baltimore, Maryland.
  • Windmills were beginning to be used

    Windmills were beginning to be used

    A man named Daniel Halladay began inventing windmills for pumping water. It was used a lot in farmland.
  • Windmills for electricity

    Windmills for electricity

    The first electricity generating windmill was invented by Charles F. Brush in Cleveland, Ohio. At the time, it generated about 12 kilowatts (kW) of power.
  • First light bulb

    First light bulb

    The first incandescent light bulb, created by Humphry Davy, produced light energy by the passing of a current through a strip of platinum.
  • Hoover Dam

    Hoover Dam

    On this date the construction of the Hoover Dam in Black Canyon, right outside of Vegas began. It was finished on March 1st, 1936 and is the biggest hydroelectric power plant.
  • First nuclear power plant

    First nuclear power plant

    The Shippingport Atomic Power Station, the world's first full-scale nuclear power plant, becomes operational at Shippingport, Pennsylvania.
  • Satellite uses solar energy

    Satellite uses solar energy

    For the first time, the U.S. uses a satellite in orbit around Earth powered by solar energy. The sun's rays are even more powerful in outer space so it was a major success.
  • Wind Energy

    Wind Energy

    The first framework for wind energy development on U.S. outer continental shelf is announced.

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