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The invention of the Watt steam engine
Watt's steam engine,was the first practical steam engine, becoming one of the driving forces of the Industrial Revolution. James Watt effectively design sporadically -
Opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway
Work on the Liverpool and Manchester railway had begun in the 1820s, to connect the major industrial city of Manchester with the nearest deep water port at the Port of Liverpool, 35 miles (56 km) away. -
Opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway
Work on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway had begun in the 1820s, to connect the major industrial city of Manchester with the nearest deep water port at the Port of Liverpool, 35 miles (56 km) away. -
First oil well drilled
Drake to drill an oil well in Titusville, Pennsylvania, which produced oil. The well was drilled to a depth of 69.5 feet, and it initially produced 25 barrels a day, the first well to produce oil in commercial quantities. -
The first practical incandescent light bulb
In the first public demonstration of his incandescent lightbulb, American inventor Thomas Alva Edison lights up a street in Menlo Park, New Jersey. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company ran special trains to Menlo Park on the day of the demonstration in response to public enthusiasm over the event. -
The first electric train
The first electric passenger train was presented by Werner von Siemens at Berlin. The locomotive was driven by a 2.2 kW, series-wound motor, and the train, consisting of the locomotive and three cars, reached a speed of 13 km/h. -
First electric street lighting in Salamanca
The newspaper El Progreso of September 10, 1884, published a note about the first test of electric lighting in Salamanca: «On Monday at eight o'clock at night the electric lighting shone in Alamedilla. -
The world's first automobile
Carl Benz applied for a patent for his “vehicle powered by a gas engine. It was a one-cylinder two-stroke unit which ran for the first time on New Year’s Eve . Benz had so much commercial success with this engine that he was able to devote more time to his dream of creating a lightweight car powered by a gasoline engine, in which the chassis and engine formed a single unit. -
The first hydroelectric power plant inaugurated in Niagara Falls
Nikola Tesla and George Westinghouse built the first hydro-electric power plant in 1895 in Niagara Falls and started the electrification of the world -
World's first nuclear power station built in Obninsk
On June 26, 1954, at Obninsk, Russia, the nuclear power plant APS-1 with a net electrical output of 5 MW, the world's first nuclear power plant that generated electricity for commercial use. The science city of Obnisk is located at about 100 km southwest of Moscow. -
Spain’s first nuclear power plant
The first Spanish nuclear power plan, only five years after a group of companies and visionary professionals led the launching of nuclear energy in Spain, and three and a half years after construction started, the José Cabrera Nuclear Plant, also known as Zorita, began its operation. The site became a pioneer of nuclear-originated electric generation in Spain, -
The world's worst nuclear accident
Chernobyl was by far the worst reactor accident of all time. A total of 572 million people exposed to radiation,of 127 reactor workers, firemen and emergency personnel on site sustained radiation doses sufficient to cause radiation sickness.54 died from their radiation exposure. And it’s been estimated that 22 of the 110,645 cleanup workers may have contracted fatal leukemias over the next 25 years.
