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The first motor that ran completely on solar energy and the first steam engine that worked using solar energy was invented and patented by Auguste Mouchout.
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The first Electric Plant was built in New York by Thomas Eddison.
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One of the world's first hydro-electric stations was constructed in Appleton, Wisconsin and wasa success.
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The first windmill for electricity production is built by Professor James Blyth of Anderson's College in Glascow, Scotland.
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the first ever demonstration of geothermal power was performed by Prince Piero Ginori Conti at the Larderello dry steam field in Italy.
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The Supreme Court of the United States decided the dissolution of the Oil Trust.
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The last concrete is poured at the Hoover Dam at it's completion.
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The very first fully operational Nuclear power plant was constructed. It could barely power 4 light bulbs, but at the time it was considered an savior to the environment in place of coal and other fossil fuel burning.
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The Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act (SMCRA) was put into action in order to regulate mining activity and protect society and the environment from the adverse effects of mining operations.
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A Nuclear power Plant accident in Pennsylvania finally starts the opposition towards Nulear power. Though there were no casualties it soon became as widespread as opposition toward nulear bombs.
