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Steam engine invented
A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid.
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Electricity was discovered.
Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and flow of electric charge. Electricity gives a wide variety of well-known effects, such as lightning, static electricity, electromagnetic induction and electric current.
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The first solar oven was invented
The first solar oven was invented by Swiss scientist Horace-Benedict de Saussure. The oven was created with an insulated box that was covered with three glass layers that were used to concentrate solar heat. This solar oven reached an internal temperature of 230 degrees fahrenheit³.
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Volta Battery was invented
Batteries provided the main source of electricity before the development of electric generators and electrical grids around the end of the 19th century. Successive improvements in battery technology facilitated major electrical advances, from early scientific studies to the rise of telegraphs and telephones, and eventually leading to portable computers, mobile phones, electric cars, and many other electrical devices.
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First commercially used biomass gasifier was built in France
http://energy.gov/eere/bioenergy/bioenergizeme-virtual-science-fair-biomass-history-timeline
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First oil well was built in US
On August 28, 1859, George Bissell and Edwin L. Drake made the first successful use of a drilling rig on a well drilled especially to produce oil, at a site on Oil Creek near Titusville, Pennsylvania.
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First water power plant used for electricity in US
The old Schoelkopf Power Station No. 1 near Niagara Falls in the U.S. side began to produce electricity in 1881. The first Edison hydroelectric power station, the Vulcan Street Plant, began operating September 30, 1882, in Appleton, Wisconsin, with an output of about 12.5 kilowatts.
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The first windmill for electricity production was built
The first windmill for electricity production is built by Professor James Blyth of Anderson's College, Glasgow (now Strathclyde University). The professor experiments with three different turbine designs, the last of which is said to have powered his Scottish home for 25 years
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Prince Piero Ginori Conti invents the first geothermal power plant
- Prince Piero Ginori Conti invents the first geothermal power plant at the Larderello dry steam field in Tuscany, Italy http://energy.gov/eere/geothermal/history-geothermal-energy-america
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Nuclear fission is discovered
Nuclear fission of heavy elements was discovered on December 17, 1938 by German Otto Hahn and his assistant Fritz Strassmann, and explained theoretically in January 1939 by Lise Meitner and her nephew Otto Robert Frisch.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fission
