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Invention of the printing press
The invention is attributed to the German Johannes Gutenberg, the so-called "Father of the Printing" after contesting the glory of that title among Germans, Italians, French and Dutch. -
Mechanical calculator
The Pascaline is the first mechanical calculator which operated on wheels and gears that made sums and subtractions. Blaise Pascual was his inventor -
Telegraph
The telegraph was one of the inventions that most revolutionized communications, which allowed instant communication at a distance -
Phones's patent
The US Patent Office granted Alexander Graham Bell the phone's patent -
Phonograph
The phonograph, or gramophone, was the most common device for reproducing recorded sound from the 1870s to the 1980s. -
First radio transmission
On Christmas Eve of the year 1906, a melody first came to the Atlantic Ocean. The ships that reached the signal emitted from the Brant Rock wireless station in Massachusetts, USA, heard for the first time in their receivers a human voice that narrated a passage of the Bible and later, a violin that played a popular Christmas carol -
First transcontinental telephone call
Alexander Graham Bell carried out the first transcontinental telephone call, from end to end of America, from New York to San Francisco. The call covered a distance of 5,471 kilometers -
First speaker
Bell Telephone Laboratories decided to develop a complete music reproduction system consisting of an electronic phonograph and a loudspeaker, to take advantage of this new recording medium. -
First television signal
The engineer and Scottish physicist John Logie Baird managed to make the first television broadcast, thus becoming the "father" of an invention that would revolutionize communications, society and culture -
First computer
Honored Zuse created the first computer in history by calling it Z1. The Z1 was the first fully programmable computer system -
Wifi
Hedy Lamarr patented the secret communication system that gave rise to what we now know as wifi and blutooth -
Photocopier
In 1959 Xerox manufactures the photocopier and for 1973 the first color photocopier, manufactured by Canon, appears -
First trip to space
Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person to travel into space when he orbited around the Earth in a spaceship -
USB
The USB stick, the substitute for the old diskettes and more used nowadays than the compact disc or the DVD, was invented by the Israeli engineer Dov Moran. It was he who was in charge of the initial prototype, as well as the first units created by the M-System company. -
Google
Larry Page and Sergey Brin started Google as a university project, when they were both graduate students in science at Stanford University -
iPhone
Steve Jobs made history by presenting the first iPhone. The 3.5-inch screen was a pioneer in its class with a touch screen monitor that combined an iPod with a web browser and a phone. The 2 MP camera was on the back of the device. This cell phone was criticized strongly at first, but they didn't know they would achieve.
