Prof Dr Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry

HISTORICAL SUMMARY OF ENERGY

Year Technology Supply Life style

changes
1776 James Watt's Fuel sources
steam engine are wood, hay,
coal
1807 Gas street Gas Gas lamp
lights first illumination
installed in
London
Clermont-first
commercially
successful
steamship
1814 First practical
steam
locomotive
1830 Best Friend
locomotive
1831 Henry's electric Coal
motor,
 Drake well Kerosene
1859 hits oil at 69 lamps
feet Coal
1863 Open-hearth
furnace
1867 Refrigerated
rail car
patented
1880 Edison U.S. railroad
patents mileage is
electric light 87,800
bulb
1882 Rockefeller U.S. is
forms producing
Standard Oil 85% of
Trust world's
crude oil
1888 Tesla's first London
electric subway
motor opens
1890 Suez Canal
opens
1890 Suez Canal
opens
1893 Benz and Ford
construct
their first car

1895 Los Angeles

oil field
discovered
1900 Standard Oil
trust said to
control 80%
of U.S. oil
1903 Airplane-
Wright's first
flight
1908 Model-T assembly
line; improvement
in salaries for
workers
1911 Kettering Standard Oil
develops trust broken
electric self- up
starter for
auto
1911 Kettering Standard
develops Oil trust
electric self- broken up
starter for
auto

1914 Ford Crude oil

develops worth
first tractor 88ft/barrel
1921 Gasoline
production
in U.S. =
472 million
barrels
1927 Lindberg
flies (N.Y. to
Paris) in
33.5 hours
nonstop
1929 World's Stock market
largest collapse
refinery built
in Arabia
1931 E. O. Natural gas
Lawrence from Texas
invents reaches
cyclotron Chicago
through 24"
pipeline
1937 First jet
engine built
by Frank
Whittle
1942 Enrico
Fermi
splits the
atom
1945 First
atomic
bomb
1949 U.S.S.R. Texas British
tests its producin gas
first g 85% of industry
atomic world's nationali
bomb petroche zed
micals
1953 First
hydroge
n bomb
1957 U.S.S.R.
launches U.S. crude oil
Sputnik production at
915 million
barrels/day
1962 200 atomic
reactors in US
(military and
civilian)
1963 First oil
drilling off
California
Coast
1965 Gas discovered Northeast U.S.
in Alaskan loses
North Slope electricity
(blackout) for
several hours
1968 Aswan Dam
completed
1973 Middle East oil
prices doubled Gasoline
rationing or
allocation
1975 Oil depletion
allowance China
eliminated becomes oil
exporter
Energy use per capita versus the gross national product per
capita
The three dimension of energy issue