
1760 – Industrial Revolution – Power Loom
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_loom
1765 – Watt’s Steam Engine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_engine
1800 – Second Agricultural Revolution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Agricultural_Revolution
1802 – Steam-powered Locomotive
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_locomotive
1821 – Electromagnetic induction – Electric Motor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_motor
1859 – Pennsylvania Oil Rush
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_oil_rush
1869 – Transcontinental Railroad
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_transcontinental_railroad
1869 – Suez Canal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Canal
1879 – Edison’s Practical Electric Light Bulb
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_light
1882 – Commercial Electricity Generation and Distribution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_generation
1886 – Alternating Current Distribution and Motors
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternating_current
1886 – Internal Combustion Engine – Benz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_combustion_engine
1902 – Air Conditioning – Carrier
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_conditioning
1903 – Wright Brothers’ Airplane
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_brothers
1905 – Electric Home Appliances
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_appliance
1907 – Synthetic Plastics / Bakelite
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic
1914 – Panama Canal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Canal
1915 – Home Refrigerators
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refrigerator
1927 – Nonstop Transatlantic Flight
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_flight
1935 – Commercial Air Travel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_DC-3
1956 – Interstate Highway System
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Highway_System
1958 – Commercial Nuclear Power
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_the_United_States
1960 – Laser
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser
1960 – Third Agricultural Revolution (Green)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Revolution
1961 – Manned Space Flight
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Gagarin
1968 – Boeing 747
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_747
1969 – Moon Landing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Race
2012 – Wind Energy – largest US new power source
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power
2020 – Solar Energy – cheapest power source
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_energy
Summary
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