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The first steam-powered machine was built in 1698 by the English military engineer Thomas Savery
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William Grove produced the first fuel cell in 1839
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Thomas Edison invented the 1st incandescent light bulb
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On September 30, 1882, the world's first hydroelectric power plant began operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin
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The first solar cell was invented by Charles Fritts
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The world's first commercial nuclear power station, Calder Hall at Windscale, England, was opened in 1956 with an initial capacity of 50 MW
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The first commercial nuclear generator to become operational in the United States was the Shippingport Reactor in Pennsylvania, December 1957
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Theodore Harold Ted Maiman, a physicist in the United States, made the first working laser in 1960
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In spring of 2001 the 1st Digital satellite radio was invented, and XM Radio successfully launched its two broadcast satellites: "Rock" and "Roll".
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The world's first Geothermal power station was built in 1911 in Larderello, in Southern Tuscany, Italy. Since Roman times steam and hot water springs emerging from this geologically active ground has been used for hot water and for bathing
