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3000 BC. Mules first used for transporting cargo in the Middle East. One of the first energy sources was animal power.
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500
1200 BC. Early sailboats used in Polunesia for transportation over water in order to use wind power.
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Jun 23, 600
3000 BC. Ancient Chisese, Egyptians, Phonecians, Greek, and Romans used solar power to successfully evaporate salt water to produce salt as well as to dry their crops.
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Jun 23, 1000
1000-851 BC. Chinese probably used coat as fuel- one of the first uses of fossil fuels.
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1629 - Italian architect, Giovanni Branca invents a primitire turbine consisting of a boiler with a spout to direct steam against wooden blades of a wheel.
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1859 - Colonel Edwin Drake first drills for oil in the United States in Titusville, Pennsyvania.
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1879 - Thomas A. Edison invents the first electric light bulb.
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1952- World's first nuclear reactor for commercial power in Shippingport, PA.
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1954 - The first successful silicon solar collectors were reported by American scientists.
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1978 - OPEC oil embargo - drives fuel prices up.
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1991 - Persian Gulf War highlights vulnerability of oil supply.
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1 Million BC. Homo erectus learns how to control fire.
