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Commercial production of Coal begins in Richmond, Virginia.
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Benjamin Franklin ran an experiment where he attached a metal key to his kite in the middle of a storm.
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Thomas Davenport invented the first electric motor in 1837.
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Edwin Drake drills for oil in the United States and is successful.
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Thomas Edison creates the lightbult using a carbonized filament and low current electricity.
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Hoover Dam was created in 1931 and opened 5 years later. It served both to regulate flooding on the river and produce hydroelectric power.
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UNIVAC was designed by Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation and was completed by Remington Rand in 1951.
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First commercial Nuclear Power Plant in Pennsylvania
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In 1980 the world's first wind farm, consisting of twenty 30 kW wind turbines was installed at Crotched Mountain, in New Hampshire
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New amendment to the Kyoto Protocol, which asks nations to be conscious of climate change and to move towards cleaner sources of energy
