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The Brownie Camera
1900 The first mass-market camera, the "Brownie" is introduced by Kodak
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The First Airplane Flight
1903 Airplane At Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright break the powered flight barrier with their gasoline-powered "Flyer I." The first powered, sustained, and controlled airplane flight in history lasts 12 seconds. Wilbur pilots the machine. On a flight later that day, Orville will remain aloft 59 seconds and travel 852 feet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5o-fhBKf8Y
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The First Cash Register
1906 Charles F. Kettering designed the first cash register powered by an electric motor.
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The First Sonar
1906 Lewis Nixon invented the very first Sonar type listening device as a way of detecting icebergs. Interest in Sonar was increased during World War I when there was a need to be able to detect submarines. Sonar is a system that uses transmitted and reflected underwater sound waves to detect and locate submerged objects or measure the distances underwater. http://tinyurl.com/q3hp44v -
The Model T
1908 The Model T. It had a 20-horsepower, four-cylinder engine, reached a top speed of about 45 miles per hour, got about 13 to 21 miles per gallon of gasoline and weighed 1,200 pounds. It was the ninth of Henry Ford's production cars.More than 15,000,000 Model T's were built and sold. Led to the invention of the assembly line.
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The First Radio Station
1909 Charles Herrold in San Jose starts the first radio station in the USA with regularly scheduled programming
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The First LArge Solar Pumping Station
1913 Frank Shuman, American inventor, created the first large solar pumping station in Meadi, Egypt.
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The Panama Canal
1914 Panama Canal After 36 years' labor, the bankruptcy of thousands of investors, and the deaths of more than 25,000 men, the Panama Canal is finished. The canal cuts the sailing distance from the East Coast to the West Coast by more than 8,000 miles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOTA-S9MovE
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The Polygragh
1921 John Larson, a University of California medical student, invented the polygraph machine. This invention was used in police interrogation and investigation since 1924. The lie detector is still controversial among psychologists, and is not always judicially acceptable. The name polygraph comes from the fact that the machine records several different body responses simultaneously as the individual is questioned. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po_DCBGExP4
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The First Traffic Signal
1923 Nov 20, Garrett Morgan invented and patented a traffic signal.
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The Defibrillator
1932 Defibrillator Working at the research facilities at Johns Hopkins University, Dr. William Bennett Kouwenhoven develops a device for jump-starting the heart with a burst of electricity.
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The First Batman Comic Strip
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The Atmoic Bomb
1945 Atomic Bomb A team led by J.R. Oppenheimer, Arthur H. Compton, Enrico Fermi and Léo Szilard detonates the first atomic bomb at the Los Alamos Lab near Santa Fé, New Mexico. Following the tests, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan -- one at Hiroshima, one at Nagasaki -- that claimed more than 100,000 lives. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t19kvUiHvAE
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The First Polaroid Camera
1947 Polaroid Camera Dr. Edwin H. Land introduces a new camera that can produce a developed photographic image in sixty seconds. Land will follow in the 1960s with a color model and eventually receive more than 500 patents for his innovations in light and plastics technologies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82ZiQP0f7rs
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The First Electric Guitar
1948 Electric Guitar Leo Fender launches the guitars that built rock and roll when he debuts his Broadcaster solid-bodied electric guitar. Later renamed the Telecaster, the guitar will become a favorite with guitar slingers worldwide.
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The First Modern Computer
1948 The modern computer was born. when the University of Manchester's Small-Scale Experimental Machine, nicknamed the 'Baby', successfully executed its first program. Designed and built by F. C. Williams and Tom Kilburn*, the Baby kept only 1,024 bits in its main store, but it was the first computer to store a changeable user program in electronic memory and process it at electronic speed.
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The First Heart-Lung Machine
1953 Heart-lung Machine Dr. John H. Gibbon performs the first successful open heart surgery in which the blood is artificially circulated and oxygenated by a heart-lung machine. This new technology, which allows the surgeon to operate on a dry and motionless heart, greatly increases surgical treatment options for heart defects and disease.
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The First Artificial Satellite
1957 The Soviet Union successfully launched The world's first artificial satellite was about the size of a beach ball, weighed only 183.9 pounds, and took about 98 minutes to orbit the Earth on its elliptical path. That launch ushered in new political, military, technological, and scientific developments. While the Sputnik launch was a single event, it marked the start of the space age and the U.S.-U.S.S.R space.
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Explorer 1
1958 Explorer I Three months after the Soviet Union began the Space Age by launching Sputnik, the U.S. responds by sending the Explorer I satellite into orbit. Explorer I's mission is to detect radiation; it discovers one of the Van Allen radiation belts
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The Moon Landing
1969 Moon Landing Millions watch worldwide as the landing module of NASA's Apollo 11 spacecraft touches down on the moon's surface and Neil Armstrong becomes the first human to set foot on the moon. President John F. Kennedy, who vowed to the world that the United States would put a human on the moon before 1970, has not lived to witness the moment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwZb2mqId0A
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The First Single Chip Microprocessor
1971 a company called Intel publicly introduced the world's first single chip microprocessor, the Intel 4004, invented by Intel engineers Federico Faggin, Ted Hoff, and Stanley Mazor. After the invention of integrated circuits revolutionized computer design. The Intel 4004 chip took the integrated circuit down one step further by placing all the parts that made a computer think on one small chip. Programming intelligence into inanimate objects had now become possible.
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The First Video Game
1972 Video Game Pong, one of the first mass-produced video games, has become the rage. Noland Bushnell, the 28 year-old inventor of Pong, will go on to found Atari. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vbGBlxVxcQ
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The First Barcode
1974 Barcode The first shipments of bar-coded products arrive in American stores. Scanners at checkout stations read the codes using laser technology. The hand-punched keyboard cash register takes one step closer to obsolescence.
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Microsoft
1975 Microsoft Old high school friends Bill Gates and Paul Allen form a partnership known as Microsoft to write computer software. They sell their first software to Ed Roberts at MIT, which has produced the Altair 8800, the first microprocessor-based computer. Gates soon drops out of Harvard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLaMbaVT22E
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Apple Inc.
1976 Apple Inc. 1 Apr 1976, Apple was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne. It was first known as Apple Computer inc. but then changed to Apple inc. when the company wanted to focus on consumer electronics. The company started making various other consumer electronics such as the ipod, iphone, ipad, and mac laptop. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZyKlZcqrjk
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The First Space Shuttle
1981 Space Shuttle For the first time, NASA successfully launches and lands its reusable spacecraft, the Space Shuttle. The shuttle can be used for a number of applications, including launch, retrieval, and repair of satellites and as a laboratory for physical experiments. While extremely successful, the shuttle program will suffer a disaster in 1986 when the shuttle Challenger explodes after takeoff, killing all on board. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdKltNx42AQ
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The World Wide Web
1990 World Wide Web (WWW), or known as The Web, the leading information retrieval service of the Internet. The Web gives users access to a vast array of documents that are connected to each other by means of hypertext or hypermedia links ex., hyperlinks, electronic connections that link related pieces of information in order to allow a user easy access to them
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