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Telegraph
Samuel Morse creates The Telegraph, and changes the way of communicate. For him even its created a language of points and lines with light, that were meant to carry a mensage from tower to tower. -
Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell was awarded the first U.S. patent for the invention of the telephone in 1876. Elisha Gray, 1876, designed a telephone using a water microphone in Highland Park, Illinois. -
First Motor
Gottlieb Daimler invented the high-speed gasoline engine in 1883/1884. In 1885, he used the new drivetrain in the -Reitwagen- driving car, the world's first two-wheeled motorized vehicle. -
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Electromagnetic Waves
In 1888, German physicist Heinrich Hertz produced and detected electromagnetic waves in his laboratory by using a spark gap attached to an induction coil and a separate spark gap on a receiving antenna. -
First radio transmitter
Guglielmo Marconi: an Italian inventor, proved the feasibility of radio communication. He sent and received his first radio signal in Italy in 1895. By 1899 he flashed the first wireless signal across the English Channel and two years later received the letter "S", telegraphed from England to Newfoundland. -
Cinema
In 1895, Louis and Auguste Lumière gave birth to the big screen thanks to their revolutionary camera and projector, the Cinématographe. Auguste and Louis Lumière invented a camera that could record, develop, and project film. -
First Car
The first automobile with an internal combustion engine is attributed to Karl Friedrich Benz in the city of Mannheim in 1886 with the Benz Patent-Motorwagen model. Soon after, other pioneers such as Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach presented their models. -
X-rays
The one that invented the X-rays was Wilhem Conrad Rontgen.
The date commemorates the day on which Professor Wilhem Conrad Röntgen discovered X-rays in 1895. It was Röntgen himself who took the first X-ray of his wife's hand, who, horrified by the result, refused to participate in her husband's later studies. -
Fordism
Fordism is a term widely used to describe the system of mass production that was pioneered in the early 20th century by the Ford Motor Company -
Taylorime
Taylorism is a method of organizing industrial work, whose main characteristics are the horizontal and vertical division of labor, as well as wages based on performance. -
First World War