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The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Tom Thumb in 1830, designed and built by Peter Cooper, was the first US-built locomotive to run in America.
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The Drake Well is a 69.5-foot-deep (21.2 m) oil well in Cherrytree Township, Venango County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, and with it's success sparked the oilboom in the United States.
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Thomas Edison, an American Inventor, created the electric light. The first successful attempt was on October 22,1879.
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Thomas Edison, after he created the light bulb, he decided to take it a step farther and make the lamp.
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Charles Fritts, an American inventor, develops a solar cell.However, at the time they were mostly used in cameras as light sensors for exposure timing in photo cameras.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_solar_cells#1930.E2.80.931959
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The first successful gas-powered car in the US. The Duryea brothers set up first American car manufacturing company.
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Thomas Edison picked up Jungner's nickel-iron battery design, patented it himself and sold it in 1903. Edison wanted to commercialise a more lightweight and durable substitute for the lead-acid battery that powered some early automobiles, and he hoped that electric cars would become the standard.
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Brings electricty to the citizens of nearby towns and cities. Also provides flood control and water storage and regulation. Also has many recreation uses.
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Edward Teller is a Hungarian-American scientist who worked on nuclear fission. He was dubbed "the father of the hydrogen bomb". Nuclear fission was pushed for more weapons and the nuclear bomb was created.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fission
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15.9 giga-watts of solar PV system installations were completed. With more to come in the next following years and more places using solar energy, production will only increase.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_panel#Production
