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Telegraph,Samuel Morse
In 1836, Samuel Finley Beese Morse made a device that was simple to operate: it was a pencil that drew in a straight line when it had no electric flow.
Morse was able to create the famous code that bears his name with the help of machinist Alfred Vail: Morse code, a binary system that forms characters through three symbols: space, dot and dash. The telegraph was one of the inventions that most revolutionized communications, as it allowed long-distance communication. -
Nobel patented dynamite
Alfred Nobel patented it on May 6, 1867 and, although the inventor was a pacifist, dynamite has been key in the wars of contemporary history.
It was nothing more than an advance of the explosives invented by the Chinese within the year 9 B.C and it was first used to make a bomb in 1870, during the Franco-German War and was soon used in the Cuban and Philippine wars. -
Alexander Graham Bell patents the Telephone.
Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone in The United States of America on March 7, 1876.
Bell’s telephone had an immediate impact on society.
Before its invention, long-distance communications were limited to telegrams and letters, which were slow and expensive.
Thanks to Bell, businesses were able to expand their operations, and families separated by distance were able to maintain closer communication -
Marconi transmitted wireless across the English Channel
The Italian Guglielmo Marconi made the first radio transmission on May 14, 1879 from the Bristol Channel (England) to Penarth, a town in Wales. Marconi succeeded in December 1901 in receiving at St. John's, Newfoundland, signals transmitted across the Atlantic Ocean from Poldhu in Cornwall, England.
At the time, he could not have imagined that his invention would be essential to saving lives, proving to be essential in the case of the rescue of the castaways of the Titanic. -
Edison test his first light bulb
On October 21, 1879, Thomas Alva Edison successfully tested the first light bulb that lasted 13.5 hours. On January 27, 1880, he was granted a patent, with a useful life of 40 hours.
Nowadays, the light bulb is one of the ten greatest inventions of our time. -
Karl Benz produced de first car with internal combustion engine
The Benz Patent-Motorwagen is a model of automobile built by Karl Benz in 1885, considered to be the first vehicle in history designed to be powered by an internal combustion engine. On January 29, 1886, Karl Benz registered the patent for the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, thanks to his wife, in Germany. -
The Cinématographe Lumière
The Cinématographe Lumière was patented on February 13, 1895 by the brothers August and Louis Lumière. On March 22, at the locals of the Société de Foment de l'Industrie Nationale in Paris, they presented their patented creation only a month earlier. It was called a cinematograph, a device that projected moving images much more realistically than other similar inventions. The cinematographer was an important step towards being able to enjoy the art of cinema. -
Orville Wright piloted the first powered airplane
On December 17, 1903, Orville Wright piloted the first powered airplane Wright Flyer I, 20 feet above a wind-swept beach in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The flight lasted 12 seconds and covered 120 feet. Together with his brother Wilbur, they made three more flights that day and the last one, with Wilbur at the controls, lasted 59 seconds and covered almost 260 meters.