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Commercial coal mining begins
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Natural gas drilled
First natural gas well was drilled in Fredonia, New York -
Natural gas pipeline
The very first natural gas pipeline was built that was 120 miles long and stretched from Indiana to Chicago -
Fuel called coke discovered
Discovered that the burning process used to make charcoal from wood could be adapted to coal. This resulted in an extremely hot-burning fuel, named coke. -
Voyager 2
The voyager 2's electricity needed for the spacecraft is generated by the decay of plutonium pellets..... cool right -
Steamboat
John fitch is able to create the steamboat which is the first automated boat that ran off of fossil fuels successfully. -
Hydrogen cell busses
Chicago now adds hydrogen cell busses to the mass transit system -
Coal usage
Coal is officially named the dominant source of electricity in the United States -
Nuclear energy
The president of the US (Bush at the time) approves an energy policy that looks at nuclear energy as a big part of american energy. -
Hydropower
Hydropower is finally accepted as a good use for energy in the US.
