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Charles F. Brush patented for improving an electrical generator for powering arc lights.
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Thomas Edison and Sir Joseph Swann first public demonstrator of incandescent light bulb.
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The first windmill for electricity production was built in Scotland in July 1887 by Prof James Blyth of Anderson's College, (not sure about the exact date)
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Claude's first public demonstration of a large neon light was at the Paris Motor Show (Salon de l'Automobile et du Cycle), December 3-18, 1910.
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Soviet Union detonates first atomic device.
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President Truman approves a $1.4 billion expansion of Atomic Energy Commission facilities to produce uranium and plutonium for nuclear weapons.
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The Shippingport Atomic Power Station, the world's first full-scale nuclear power plant, becomes operational at Shippingport, Pennsylvania.
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Elmer Fridrich and Emmett Wiley received paternt for the tungsten halogen lamp.
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The Reagan Administration announces a nuclear energy policy that anticipates the establishment of a facility for the storage of high-level radioactive waste and lifts the ban on commercial reprocessing of nuclear fuel.
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President Bush signs the Energy Policy Act of 1992, which assists the implementation of the National Energy Strategy.
