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Nicéphore Niépce became interested in using a light-sensitive solution to make copies of lithographs onto glass, zinc, and finally a pewter plate.
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Samuel Morse sent the first message over the first long-distance telegraph line, which stretched between Washington, D.C., and Baltimore. The message: “What hath God wrought.”
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Alexander Graham Bell made the first telephone call when he asked his assistant Tom Watson to come to him
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Nikolaus Otto built an engine that, unlike the steam engine, used the burning of fuel inside the engine to move a piston.
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Thomas Edison got a carbon-filament light bulb to burn for 13 hours.
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Karl Benz used a one-cylinder engine to power the first modern automobile, a three-wheeled car that he drove around a track.
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Guillermo Marconi connected Europe and America for the first time by means of a radiotelegraphic signal.
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Orville Wright made the first airplane flight, of 120 feet, near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
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Robert Goddard achieved the first test flight of a liquid-fueled rocket, from his aunt’s farm in Auburn, Massachusetts.
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Farnsworth worked out a plan for such a system, he made the first electronic television transmission, a horizontal line.
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John Atanasoff designed the first electronic digital computer. It would use binary numbers
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A team of physicists led by Enrico Fermi used uranium to produce the first self-sustaining chain reaction.
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Bell Labs engineers John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley gave the first public demonstration of the transistor, an electrical component that could control, amplify, and generate current.
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The Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, a small 83.6-kg metal sphere.
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The first such personal computer was the Altair, which was soon supplanted in 1977 by the Apple II, the TRS-80, and the Commodore PET.
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Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn produced the TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol), which describes how data can be broken down into smaller pieces called packets and how these packets can be transmitted to the right destination.
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We'd call it the portal to the Web
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It is a mechanism for connecting electronic devices wirelessly.
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A virtual machine independent of programming language. The future of Microsoft development.
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This is an American online social media and networking service.
