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Joseph Henry invents the electrical relay which can send eletrical currents over long distances.
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Thomas Davenport invents the electric motor that is still used today.
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Sir William Robert Grove developed the first fuel cell
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Heinrich Gobel constructs an incandescent lamp with a filament of carbonized bamboo placed in a glass vessel.
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The first alternating current power plant went into operation in Great Barrington, Mass., on this date and went into commercial service on March 20, 1886.
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Clarence M. Kemp of Baltimore, Md. patents the first commercial solar water heater.
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A powerline is created that streches from the United States border to the Canada border.
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The Geothermal Energy Association is formed.
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World's First Solar Powered Village found in Arizona.
