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The first street lights were lit using gas made from coal. They were first invinted in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Thomas Davenport invented the electric motor. This machine is still used in most electric appliances today.
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Thomas edison using carbon filament created the first lightbulb that lasted for 40 hours. He was the first successful attempt at making a lightbulb.
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The first Hydroelectric Dam wasa in the US.The Schoelkopf Power Station No. 1 began operating near Niagra Falls. Within eight years there 200 working hydroelectric dams in the United States.
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Joseph John Thomson discovered electrons.
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Piero Ginori Conti invents the first geothermal electric power plant.
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Henry Ford invented the first automible, it ran on oil and it was rather affordable.
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The very first wind turbine was built in Vermont. It could create 1.25 megawatts, it was the largest wind turbine ever built until 1979.
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Reserachers came up with an atom that could take rays from the sun and turn into energy. This technology was first used in space.
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The very first nuclear power plant in the United States was opened in Pennyslvania. The plant made energy by seperating uranium atoms.
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General Motors created the first electric car. Then after the mass-production California made it a law to wher it had to be electric to help with air pollution