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Samuel Morse, The telegraph
Samuel F.B. Morse developed an electric telegraph and then invented, with his friend Alfred Vail, the Morse Code. The actual is a system for representing letters of the alphabet, numerals, and punctuation marks by arranging dots, dashes, and spaces. Samuel was an American inventor and painter. -
Nobel patented dynamite
The swedish chemist, inventor, engineer, entrepreneur and business man Alfred Nobel had acquired 355 patents worldwide when he died in 1896. He invented dynamite and experimented in making synthetic rubber, leather and artificial silk among many other things. Here is a list of 29 Swedish and 58 English patents. -
The telephone
On March 7, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell successfully received a patent for the telephone and secured the rights to the discovery. Days later, he made the first ever telephone call to his partner, Thomas Watson. It was a very important invention for that times. It was used to call people in differene places in a small period of time. -
Light bulb
Thomas Edison invented the first light bulb in 1879, though scientists and inventors had been exploring how to invent incandescent light bulbs for several decades before Edison. Other inventions of Thomas were the phonograph and the kinetoscope. -
First car with internal combustion
His Benz Patent Motorcar from 1885 built in Germany, is considered the first practical modern automobile and first car put into series production. He received a patent for the motorcar in 1886, the same year he first publicly drove the Benz. From here is the actual brand Mercedes Benz. -
Cinematographe
Patented on 13 February, 1895 by the brothers August and Louis Lumière, the Lumière Cinématographe could record moving images at a rate of sixteen frames per second on a 35 mm wide celluloid film (perforated on both sides of each frame) measuring seventeen feet long. -
Wireless across the English Channel
Marconi studied physics and became interested in the transmission of radio waves after learning of the experiments. The wireless was of 10 miles long through the English channel. When he did it, he was only 22 years old, so he was a young boy -
The first powered airplane
Wilbur and Orville Wright spent four years of research and development to create the first successful powered airplane, the 1903 Wright Flyer. It first flew at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on December 17, 1903, with Orville at the controls. It flew 12 seconds and 36 metres