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people in Britain run out of firewood, started using coal but also ran out of coal from the ground. They started digging underground.
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The steam engine made it possible for water to be pumped out of the ground and the workers to keep digging
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Watts made steam engines suitable for other uses
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Rails and steam engines combined to make railroads
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Michael Faraday invents 1st electric motor
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First rock oil drill in Pennsylvania
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1st patented automobile
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Invents alternating current
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Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch were able to expand food production and population growth
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WWI: 1st fossil-fueled war
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due to overproduction there was a great depression between the WWs and consumerism was invented around that time.
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WWII: more weaponry and atomic bombs
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Middle East oil producers placed an embargo. People were starting to reexamine their fuel consumption. Environmentalist acts were getting popular
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and everyone forgets about the environment what not
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China starts to produce most of products in the world due to cheap labor (in fact the country is burning half the coal in the world)