Home›MilestonesCategoryMilestones26 entries. Click any to see everything it connects to.The turning points of energy history: the first engines, wells and power stations, the nuclear age, the oil shocks, the great accidents, and the agreements now steering the transition.BrowseCompareCompare At A Past YearEnter a year to compare these entries as the atlas records them at that moment. Leave it empty for the present. A year before the common era is entered with a minus sign, so 44 BCE is minus 44.Show This YearSelect all 26Gas Pump with a Falling Line1973 Oil Crisis19736 linksBell Labs Silicon Solar Cell19543 linksCalder Hall Opens19563 linksChernobyl Disaster19864 linksDeepwater Horizon Disaster20103 linksDrake Well Strikes Oil18593 linksEdison Perfects the Incandescent Lamp18793 linksFaraday Demonstrates Induction18314 linksFirst Nuclear Chain Reaction19422 linksFirst Nuclear Power to a Grid19543 linksFirst Practical Steam Engine17122 linksFirst Wind-Generated Electricity18874 linksFukushima Daiichi Accident20113 linksGreat Northeast Blackout19654 linksHolborn Viaduct Station Opens18823 linksIEA Founded19743 linksKyoto Protocol19973 linksNiagara Falls AC Power18953 linksOPEC Founded in Baghdad19604 linksParis Agreement20153 linksParsons Invents the Steam Turbine18843 linksPearl Street Station Opens18825 linksOil GusherSpindletop Gusher19015 linksThree Mile Island Accident19793 linksVolta Invents the Battery18003 linksVulcan Street Plant Lights Appleton18824 links