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The turning points of energy history, from the first practical steam engine through the birth of commercial electricity and the nuclear and solar transformations of the mid-twentieth century to the energy-security shocks, safety disasters and climate agreements of the modern era, grouped below into five chronological periods.

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1973 Oil Crisis

Grid Strain and the Energy Crisis Era

Bell Labs Silicon Solar Cell

Mid-Century Power Transformations

Calder Hall Opens

Mid-Century Power Transformations

Chernobyl Disaster

The Climate and Safety Reckoning

Deepwater Horizon Disaster

The Climate and Safety Reckoning

Drake Well Strikes Oil

Steam and Early Industrial Power

Edison Perfects the Incandescent Lamp

The Electric Age Begins

Faraday Demonstrates Induction

Steam and Early Industrial Power

First Nuclear Chain Reaction

Mid-Century Power Transformations

First Nuclear Power to a Grid

Mid-Century Power Transformations

First Practical Steam Engine

Steam and Early Industrial Power

First Wind-Generated Electricity

The Electric Age Begins

Fukushima Daiichi Accident

The Climate and Safety Reckoning

Great Northeast Blackout

Grid Strain and the Energy Crisis Era

Holborn Viaduct Station Opens

The Electric Age Begins

IEA Founded

Grid Strain and the Energy Crisis Era

Kyoto Protocol

The Climate and Safety Reckoning

Niagara Falls AC Power

The Electric Age Begins

OPEC Founded in Baghdad

Mid-Century Power Transformations

Paris Agreement

The Climate and Safety Reckoning

Parsons Invents the Steam Turbine

The Electric Age Begins

Pearl Street Station Opens

The Electric Age Begins

Spindletop Gusher

The Electric Age Begins

Three Mile Island Accident

Grid Strain and the Energy Crisis Era

Volta Invents the Battery

Steam and Early Industrial Power

Vulcan Street Plant Lights Appleton

The Electric Age Begins
Sources
Energy and Civilization: A History
Vaclav Smil, MIT Press, 2017
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