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Benjamin Franklin tied a key to a kite and discovered that lightening was electricity during a thunderstorm.
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In Fredonia, New York, the first US natural gas well was drilled.
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Edwin Drake struck oil in Titusville, Pennsylvania.
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Thomas Edison invents the first incandescent light bulb.
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The first hydropower plant in America was built in 1880 in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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Charles Fritts develops the first solar cell.
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The TVA was a New Deal program in which workers made water power plants.
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Shippingport Nuclear Power Plant was the first nuclear power plant built in the US.
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Pacific Gas and Electric started the US's first successful geothermal power plant at the Geysers in California.
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Roscoe Wind Farm in Texas was built in 2008 and is the largest wind farm in the world.
