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Comercail coal mining began.
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First oil production well was drilled in Pennsylvania.
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Etienne Lenoir invented the first gasoline engine.
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Coal becomes a popular and easy way to generate electricity.
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Charles Brush built the first automatically operating wind turbine.
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Rudolph Diesel invented the first diesel engine.
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The first geothermal power plant is built in Laderello, Italy.
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THe first nuclear reactor used for comercial power was in Shippingport, PA.
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The first successful silicon solar collectors were made by American scientists.
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First comercially used hydrogen cell was in Chicago buses.
