History of Energy Use in the United States

By Rebecca.Boyd
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    First Use of Coal

    First Use of Coal
    In 2000 BC the Chinese First to Use Coal as an Energy Source. Poor people began to start heating their homes with coal becuase of the shortage of wood.
  • Jan 1, 1095

    1st Centry

    1st Centry
    Once oil was discovered in what is now Jian, they were saying that Oil was inexhaustible and they were going to use it for a long long time

  • Dutch Windmills

    Dutch Windmills
    The Dutch used windmills for many things such as: crushing the grain, sawed wood, and crushed different spices.

  • First Steam Engine

    First Steam Engine
    Thomas Newcomen's invention had a large impact in the Energy/Power world becuase it could produce large amounts of energy from water, wind, water current, and just good old musle power.

  • First Natural Gas Well

    First Natural Gas Well
    The first Natural Gas well was drilled in Fredonia, New York by William Hart; it was 27 feet deep. All through out the 19th centry it was used mainly a source of light but it was also very difficult to move very far or enough to be used for cooking or heating.

  • 1850s Windmills for Western Civilation and Railroad Workers

    1850s Windmills for Western Civilation and Railroad Workers
    Windmills were used to pump water- designed by Daniel Halladay It was used mainly for Western Familes and Railroad workers becuase it helped to bring water to the surface in poorly moisturaized areas.

  • John D. Rockfeller

    John D. Rockfeller
    Rockfeller formed the first Standard Oil Company in Ohion in year 1870. He drew out of hte state of Pennsylcania Oil Creek and after a couple of decades he soon controled over 90 percent of the United States Refining Capacity.

  • First Demonstration of Generating Electricity

    First Demonstration of Generating Electricity
    William Grylls Adams and Richard Evans Day exposed that electrical current could begin by just exposing it to light. This created Solar Power Lighting

  • Nuclear Power Plant

    Nuclear Power Plant
    The first Nuclear Power Plant opened in Shippingport, Pennsylvania and began to supply energy to almost all of the Pittsburg area.

  • Electricity for Apollo and Space Missions

    Electricity for Apollo and Space Missions
    General Electric work hard to find a way to get Space men drinking water and after all the reasearch they found that fuel cells, although expensice and large, they worked flawlessly and effectively.