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Italian scientists Averoni and Targioni use a large glass and the sun's rays to melt a diamond
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First natural gas well drilled in Fredonia, New York
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Swedish born American john Ericsson builds a hot-air engine powered by the sun
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Drilling for geothermal water at Larderello, Italy intensifies due to new methods
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Thomas Edison invents the telegraph machine.
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Charles Brush, American, builds first modern automatically operating wind turbine
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First Geothermal Plant in Italy
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French engineer, George Darrieus, patents the wind turbine bearing his name.
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Manhattan Project is formed to secretly build the atomic bomb before the Germans
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Chicago adds hydrogen cell buses to mass transit
