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This dimension sorts energy technologies by their basic type, generation, storage or efficiency. Wikipedia notes that energy development includes "the production of fossil fuel-derived, nuclear, and renewable sources of energy, and for the recovery and reuse of energy that would otherwise be wasted," several distinct types of technology at once. Browsing by technology type keeps technologies of the same kind grouped together.

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Domain Established Era
1750 1
Technology Type

Absorption and Adsorption Refrigeration

Technologies
5 entries

Air Conditioning and Vapor-Compression Cooling

Technologies
9 entries

Air Purification

Technologies
3 entries

Battery Systems and Management

Technologies
3 entries

Biological and Photochemical Hydrogen

Technologies
6 entries

Boilers, Furnaces and Combined Cycle Plants

Technologies
11 entries

Carbon Capture

Technologies
8 entries

Cogeneration and Combined Heat and Power

Technologies
5 entries

Detonation Engines

Technologies
2 entries

Direct Energy Conversion Devices

Technologies
7 entries

Electric Generators

Technologies
7 entries

Electric Motors

Technologies
17 entries

Electrostatic and Other Fusion Concepts

Technologies
8 entries

Enhanced and Advanced Geothermal Systems

Technologies
6 entries

External Combustion Engines

Technologies
2 entries

Fast and Breeder Reactors

Technologies
5 entries

Flow and Molten Salt Batteries

Technologies
5 entries

Fuel Cell Components

Technologies
2 entries

Fuel Cell Types

Technologies
22 entries

Gas Detection and Vapor Recovery

Technologies
4 entries

Gas Turbines and Jet Engines

Technologies
2 entries

Gas-Cooled Reactors

Technologies
5 entries

Gasification and Reforming

Technologies
12 entries

Generation IV and Advanced Concepts

Technologies
9 entries

Geothermal Heat Pumps and Direct Use

Technologies
6 entries

Geothermal Power Plants

Technologies
4 entries

Grid Monitoring, Metering and Control

Technologies
14 entries

Heat Engine Principles and Measurement

Technologies
5 entries

Heat Exchangers and Boiler Components

Technologies
17 entries

Heat Pumps

Technologies
7 entries

HVDC and Power Converters

Technologies
2 entries

Hydropower Structures and Components

Technologies
2 entries

Internal Combustion Engines

Technologies
12 entries

Light Water and Heavy Water Reactors

Technologies
12 entries

Magnetic Confinement Devices

Technologies
11 entries

Mechanical and Gas Storage Systems

Technologies
17 entries

Metal-Air Cells

Technologies
3 entries

Nitrogen Oxide and Vehicle Exhaust Control

Technologies
5 entries

Offshore and Floating Wind

Technologies
2 entries

Particulate Control Devices

Technologies
7 entries

Photovoltaic Systems and Applications

Technologies
14 entries

Physical Effects Behind Solar Cells

Technologies
4 entries

Primary Cells and Early Batteries

Technologies
5 entries

Reactive Power and Voltage Control

Technologies
11 entries

Rechargeable Batteries

Technologies
13 entries

Research and Small Reactors

Technologies
5 entries

Rotary Converters and Motor-Generators

Technologies
2 entries

Salinity Gradient Power

Technologies
3 entries

Scrubbers and Flue Gas Cleaning

Technologies
6 entries

Small and Run-of-River Hydropower

Technologies
3 entries

Solar Cell Types

Technologies
14 entries

Solar Heating for Buildings and Water

Technologies
4 entries

Solar Thermal Devices

Technologies
11 entries

Space Heating Devices

Technologies
3 entries

Steam Engines and Turbines

Technologies
8 entries

Switchgear and Circuit Protection

Technologies
15 entries

Thermal Energy Storage

Technologies
7 entries

Thermochemical Water-Splitting Cycles

Technologies
6 entries

Thermodynamic Power Cycles

Technologies
10 entries

Thermoelectric and Charge Effects

Technologies
6 entries

Thin-Film Solar Cells

Technologies
5 entries

Tidal Energy Devices

Technologies
11 entries

Traditional Windmills

Technologies
5 entries

Transformers

Technologies
9 entries

Vehicle Charging and Grid Interface

Technologies
3 entries

Vertical-Axis Wind Turbines

Technologies
3 entries

Water Electrolysis

Technologies
10 entries

Water Turbines

Technologies
15 entries

Water Wheels

Technologies
5 entries

Wave Energy Converters

Technologies
14 entries

Wind Turbines and Wind Farms

Technologies
14 entries
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1. Energy development - Wikipedia
Energy development, Fossil Fuels section, Industrial Revolution sentence
Quote, Energy development, Fossil Fuels section, Industrial Revolution sentence
The use of fossil fuels in the 18th and 19th centuries set the stage for the Industrial Revolution.
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Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc.View the Source
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