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The first historical record of an oven being built, refers to a stove built in 1490, made entirely of brick and tile.
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The first known artificial refrigeration was demonstrated by William Cullen at the University of Glasgow in 1748
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In 1828, Hungarian, Ányos Jedlik invented a small-scale model car powered by an electric motor that he designed
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French engineer Benoît Fourneyron developed the first successful water turbine in 1832.
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In 1839 Alexandre Edmond Becquerel discovered the photovoltaic effect which explains how electricity can be generated from sunlight.
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Alexander Graham Bell's notebook entry of 10 March 1876 describes his successful experiment with the telephone.
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Paul Nipkow proposed and patented the first electromechanical television system in 1884
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Schulyer Wheeler invented the electric fan in 1886.
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Thomas Edison creates a long lasting source of energy, the lightbulb.
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One of the first commercially available laptop computers was invented by Adam Osborne in 1981.
