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Production of coal for energy source begins comercialy in Richmond, Virginia.
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Ben Franklin flew a kite with a hey in a lightning storm, allowing it to get struck and starting the research for electricty in America.
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In 1816, the city of Baltimore used coal as a fuel to lit up their street lamps at night, the very first city in AMerica to do so.
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In 1821, Michael Faraday created the very first electric motor, jumpstarting the research on energy.
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Edwin Drake of the Seneca Oil Company becomes the first man to drill for oil in Titusville, Pennsylvania.
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The very first Hydroelectric mill opened in Wisconsin creating energy from nothing more than gravity and the power of water.
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Poul La Cour invents and uses the first winmill to produce energy byh harnessing the wind's power.
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In 1908, Henry Ford introduced the very first car, the Ford Model T. This car ran off of either gasoline or ethanol created from corn or grain.
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The first modernized petroleum refinery was created in Martinez, California by Shell.
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The first liquification plant for LNG was created commercially in Clevalnd, Ohio.
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The need for nuclear power leads to its uprising to the second largest energy source in America, replacing that of Hydropower.
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Al Gore narrates, produces, and writes his own documentary on the outcomes and effects of greenhouse gas emissions. Gore sets forth the idea of Global Warming, seeing a rising temperature in the Earth;s atmosphere.
