Title: Analyze the United States’s history of energy as it relates to modern day sources.
Course: Energy and Power (20101-36) > Section: Exploring the History of the Energy Industry

Analysis should include

- the first known coal deposits in the United States
- use of the steam engine
- the discovery of oil in the United States
- oil and gasoline usage in transportation
- the history of lighting
- the Current War (AC vs. DC) and the widespread use of electricity
- investor-owned utilities and public power entities (e.g., municipal utilities, electric cooperatives).

Process/Skill Questions:

- What versatile source of energy was used for construction in colonial days and was also used as a weapon in times of emergency?
- At what time did coal replace wood to power locomotive engines?
- What powered lamps before the widespread use of electricity?
- What United States bureau was created in response to the underground explosion at the Monongah Mine in West Virginia?