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The Technological Advances
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The First Locomotive
Richard Trevithick was an English engineer that created the first vapor locomotive able to work and move. He built a vapor machine of high quality and also pressure to an iron and steel industry in Wales, and as they liked the idea, he sold it to Samuel Homfray in 1803, and they became popular because of the transport of steel and iron from long distances with this new machine. -
The First Telephone
The telettrofono or the telephone was invented in 1854 by the Italian inventor Antonio Meucci. He built it to connect his office with his bedroom so he could talk to his wife, who was immobilized in bed due to illness. The device transmits acoustic signals at a distance by means of electrical signals. It was the forerunner of the current phone, but Meucci had no money to patent the invention, so his discovery was never recognized. The first wireless call was released in 1973, by Martin Cooper. -
The First Plane
The first plane was created by Clément Ader, which could release a perfect flight on a distance from the floor of 50 metres with his plane called Éole. Then he repeated twice, with two different models and he increased his hight of flight to 200 and 300 metres of distance from the floor. -
The Cinematograph, by Lumière Brothers
A cinematograph is a machine, that the Lumière brothers, Louis, and Auguste, release to film and project moving images. Its use started in the late XIX century. On the 28 of December of 1895, those brothers, project the first exhibition in Paris, and at the beginning, people didn't watch it as something new, but when the first show ended, everyone go to talk about it and the Lumière brothers became popular. -
The Radio Control
In 1898, Nikola Tesla introduced for the first time a boat that was controlled by the distance in a little space of water in the Madison Square Garden, New York. That same year, he also invented a vehicle that was very similar to the drones of nowadays.
