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James Watt deeloped the design of the steam engine with support from Matthew Boulton.
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The railway was created to connect the major industrial city of Manchester and with the nearest deep water port at Liverpool.This event is significant because it was the first locomotive-hauled railway to connect two major cities, and the first to provide a programmed passenger service.
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The Drake well located in the state of Pennsylvania at the nothwest of the U.S. it's the first commercial oil well in the United States. The importance of it is that it caused prompt additional drilling, thus establishing a supply of petroleum in sufficient quantity to support business enterprises of magnitude.
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The first electric train was built by chemist Robert Davidson of Aberdeen, and it was powered by galvanic cells (batteries). It was presented by Werner von Siemens at Berlin in 1879.
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The first street light in Salamanca was in the main square in 1884 by the company “La Electricista Salmantina” by Carlos Luna and the former mayor Wenceslao Muñoz.
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The first automobile was developed by Carl Benz in Mannheim, germany.It is important because It was the first automobile entirely designed as such to generate its own power, not simply a motorized stage coach or horse carriage
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The adam's plant is one of the first hydroelectric power plants.It's based on Tesla's 25 Hz AC power system. Nikola Tesla and George Westinghouse built the first hydroelectric power plant andstarted the electrification of the world".
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The first nuclear power station was built in Obninsk,in the european part of Russia.It's the first nuclear power plant that produced electricity
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Spain's first nuclear power plant is located in Almonacid de Zorita, Guadalajara in the centre of Spain.
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In the year 1986 happended an accident in a nuclear plant in Ukraine. It is significant because is the only accident in the history of commercial nuclear power to cause fatalities from radiation.
