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On intelligence that rebels could attackthe infrastructure, Iraqi authorites in southern Iraq have shut down the main pipeline carrying oil for export. |
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Crude prices shot to a 21-year high in reaction to a threat by Russian authorities to shut down most of the production from that country's largest oil company. |
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The main crude oil contract in New York climbs to a seven-week high, nearing record levels amid worries about supply risks. |
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Athens and much of southern Greece suffers a severe power outage which results in traffic problems in the capital city. The event raises concerns about preparedness for the 2004 Summer Olympic Games. |
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Iraqi's Interim PM Ayad Allawi reports losses in the country's power supply over the past three days and attributes the problem to insurgent attacks on pipelines and fuel trucks. |
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With repairs complete on one of the two sabotaged pipelines, Iraq resumes exporting oil from the Basra terminal and the smaller Khor al-Amaya terminal. Oil is being exported at a rate of 1m barrels a day. |
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The northeast United States and Canada experiences a widescale power blackout. |
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Pacific Gas and Electric, famed for the $333 Million Erin Brockovich settlement, declares bankruptcy amid Enron trader manipulation of the California energy crisis. |
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Rolling blackouts begin in the state of California. |
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Russia signs agreement to build a $3B nuclear power plant in China. |
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President Reagan signs into law the Nuclear Waste Policy Act. |
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US President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy. |
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Oil begins to flow through the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System. |
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The Shippingport Atomic Power Station in Pennsylvania becomes the first civilian nuclear facility to generate electricity in the United States. |
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Hoover Dam commences the generation of electricity. |
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The cover of Time Magazine celebrates the inventor Nikola Tesla's remarkable career. |
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Oil refinery on Curaçao opens |
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The New York Times publishes an interview with inventor Nikola Tesla in which he states that "'It is perfectly practicable to transmit electrical energy without wires and produce destructive effects at a distance. I have already constructed a wireless transmitter which makes this possible, and have ... |
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John Hays Hammond Jr. writes a letter to Nikola Tesla proposing the creation of the Tesla-Hammond Wireless Development Company with a purpose to perfect Teleautomatics for the torpedo. |
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In an article entiteld "The People's Forum" in The World, Tesla that "flying machines and ships propelled by electricity transmitted without wire will have ceased to be a wonder in ten years from now. I would say five were it not that there is such a thing as "inertia of human opinion" resisting re ... |
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Electrical World and Engineer publishes Nikola Tesla's "The Transmission of Electrical Energy Without Wires As A Means of Furthering World Peace." |
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After several hotly written exchanges, J.P.. Morgan finally sends the 49% balance legally due to inventor Nikola Tesla. |
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J.P. Morgan writes a letter to Nikola Tesla indicating that he will not advance him any more money. |
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Nikola Tesla pens a letter to the Light House Board providing information on his ability to supply wireless telegraph apparatus. |
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The Niagra Falls Power Company achieves its first long-distance transmission of hydroelectric power. The AC power from Nikola Tesla's brain child flowed over 26 miles to Buffalo, New York. Such a feat could not be achieved using Edison's DC power, and to this day a better method has not been impleme ... |
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Charles Dana, writing for The New York Sun, reports on "The Destruction of Tesla's Workshop" after it had burned to the ground. |
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Nikola Tesla, backed by Westinghouse, introduces the public to AC power by illuminating the World Columbian Exposition, a world's fair held in Chicago to celebrate the 400th anniversayr of Columbus' discovery of the New World. |
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The first commercially successful AC electric power plant opens in Buffalo, NY. |
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The oil tanker, Elizabeth Watts, departs Philadelphia Pennsylvania carrying a cargo of 1,329 barrels of crude oil. She will dock in London in January of 1862 marking the first transport of oil from one country to another. |
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"Colonel" Edwin L. Drake and Uncle Billy strike oil in Titusville, Pennsylvania even after having been ordered to cease drilling operations by Townsend and the Connecticut investors. |
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