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Samuel Morse
Samuel Morse was the one who created the first equipment for telegraphic transmission; later, communication evolved faster and faster.
Morse invented the electric telegraph in 1832 and ultimately took six years to standardize a code for communicating over telegraph cables. This event was important because it allowed us to overcome borders and inaugurate instant communication. -
Alexander Gaham Bell
Graham Bell was the person who patented the telephone on March 7, 1867 and just three days later, he made his first telephone call. What he did was tell his assistant, who was in the next room, to go where he was because he wanted to see him. This event was very important because families could communicate more easily. -
Alfred Nobel
Nobel discovered dynamite on November 25, 1867, it was the first safe explosive and more powerful than black gunpowder. The inventor's idea had been to use it to speed up construction work, because thanks to dynamite, builders could dig tunnels or break rocks in a much simpler and more agile way, which is why this event was important. -
Marconi
Marconi, at only 21 years old and without academic studies, obtained the first results in wireless communication, a technology that used radio waves. The first radio transmission was on May 14, 1879, at that time he could not imagine that his invention would be essential to save lives, being fundamental in the case of the rescue of the Titanic shipwrecked. -
Thomas Alva Edison
Thomas Edison introduced a light bulb with a carbonated bamboo filament that lasted up to 600 hours. On October 21, 1879, he presented the electric light bulb. The announcement was made in their Menlo Park laboratory, where they first saw the light bulb radiate for 48 hours. This event was very important since thanks to it we can have light in our homes. -
Karl Benz
Karl Benz patented his three-wheeled gasoline-powered motor vehicle and that day, January 29, 1886, was considered the birth of the automobile. This car was created at the Imperial German Patent Office in Berlin, and it was important because thanks to it we were able to transport things from one place to another and also because we can move from one place to another without having to walk. -
Lumiere
The brothers Louis and Auguste Lumiere made the first film screening on March 22, 1895 and that same year on December 28, they shot and published their first film, "Departure of the workers from the Lumiere factory in Lyon Monplaisir", in the Grand café de Paris. This event was very important because it was a way for people to change their opinion about something and their feeling. -
Orville Wright
On December 17, 1903, the Wright brothers in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, accomplished something that seemed impossible. They made the first controlled and sustained flight of a heavier-than-air machine powered by an engine. This event was important and still is today because of tourism and because things could be transported from one place to another easily.