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Some may not say ENIAC is the first computer, like the Turing machine before. Except ENIAC is the first computer that compiled the features of the previous machines, making it closer to what we know today. The first programmable, general-purpose digital computer.
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The discovery of the structure of DNA was a key moment in the history of biology. In 1953, 2 scientists, James Watson and Francis Crick, proposed the DNA double helix model. By capturing an image of DNA in rays they revolunized our understandings of genetics.
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On July 21, 1969, two American astronauts, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin were the first humans to be on the Moon . With the Apollo 11 mission, a man walks for the time on another ground than the earth's in the solar system. Space in no longer a myth in the eyes of humanity
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The ARPANET research project, is what we know as Internet today. It was developed by many american scientists and had for main purpose to interconnecting network of computers. It was done within the US military
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In 2001, astronomers estimated the universe is at least 12.5 bilion years old. This calculation was made by the giant European telescope, installed in Chile, and a spectrograph. For the first time, it was able to approximate when the Big Bang started
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In April 2019, the first image of a black hole was captured by the Eent Horizon Telescope. This image shows a supermassive black hole located at the center of galaxy M87, 55 milion light-years away. Thanks to this discovery, a new era in the study of the cosmos has begun