# Energy History Timeline — From 1712 to 2026

**URL:** https://thecodex.expert/energy/timeline/
**Session:** 19 | **Date:** 2026-05-03

## Summary

Complete energy history timeline 1712-2026. Key events with GPS: 1712 Newcomen steam engine (52.51N 2.09W Dudley England), 1769 Watt condenser (52.48N 1.89W Birmingham), 1825 Stephenson railway (54.55N 1.33W Stockton-Darlington), 1831 Faraday electromagnetic induction (51.51N 0.11W Royal Institution London), 1839 Becquerel photovoltaic effect (48.85N 2.35E Paris), 1859 Drake oil well (41.63N 79.68W Titusville PA), 1878 Armstrong first hydroelectric (55.33N 1.85W Cragside), 1882 Edison Pearl Street Station (40.71N 74.00W NYC), 1888 Brush wind turbine (41.50N 81.69W Cleveland OH), 1895 Niagara AC (43.08N 79.06W), 1904 Larderello geothermal (43.25N 10.87E Italy), 1938 Saudi oil discovery (26.31N 50.15E Dhahran), 1942 Chicago Pile-1 fusion (41.79N 87.60W), 1954 Bell Labs solar cell (40.68N 74.40W Murray Hill NJ), 1956 Calder Hall nuclear (54.42N 3.50W Sellafield UK), 1973 OPEC embargo, 1979 Three Mile Island (40.15N 76.73W), 1986 Chernobyl (51.39N 30.10E), 1988 IPCC Geneva (46.23N 6.05E), 1997 Kyoto Protocol (35.01N 135.77E), 2001 Vindeby first offshore wind (54.97N 10.96E Denmark), 2010 Deepwater Horizon (28.74N 88.37W), 2011 Fukushima (37.42N 141.03E), 2015 Paris Agreement (48.92N 2.36E Le Bourget), 2016 UAE solar $29.10/MWh record (23.63N 54.13E), 2022 NIF fusion ignition Q>1 (37.69N 121.71W Livermore), 2022 Russia-Ukraine energy crisis, 2023 solar 413 GW in one year record, 2023 COP28 Dubai (25.13N 55.37E). Sources: IEA, IAEA, UNFCCC, US DOE, IEEE History Centre, US NPS, Science Museum London.

## GPS Coordinates

This page documents 31 GPS-located assets.