Turning points from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries that laid the ground for industrial energy, including the first practical steam engine, the first battery, the discovery of electromagnetic induction and the first commercial oil well. A milestone belongs here when its cited article dates the event before the 1870s and ties it to steam, oil or early electricity. It excludes the later power stations and lighting systems of the electric age, which have their own groups.
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Wikipedia: Newcomen atmospheric engine
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The atmospheric engine was invented by Thomas Newcomen in 1712, and is sometimes referred to as the Newcomen fire engine (see below) or Newcomen engine.
Wikipedia: Voltaic pile
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It was invented by Italian chemist Alessandro Volta, who published his experiments in 1799.
Wikipedia: Drake Well
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Drilled by Edwin Drake in 1859, along the banks of Oil Creek, it is the first commercial oil well in the United States.
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