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First Photograph (Camera Obscura)
The First Photograph, (the earliest known surviving photograph made in a camera), was taken by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce. The image represents the view from an upstairs window at Niépce's city.
The idea of the camera started centuries before this picture, but the first successul photography was this, althought this invention would continue to develop until now.
The invention of the camera was an important invention because most of the actual world is based on photograpies (languaje, communication) -
Absolute Zero
Lord Kelvin discovered absolute zero in Chemistry -
Theory of Evolution
Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace developed the Theory of evolution by natural selection -
Radiant Energy and Greenhouse Effect
John Tyndall made Experiments in Radiant Energy that reinforced the Greenhouse Effect -
Pasteurization
Pasteurization was developed by French chemist Louis Pasteur during in 1864.
It was originally used as a way of preventing wine and beer from souring, and many years after milk would be pasteurized.
It seems pasteurization is not an important invention, but it improved greatly food, avoiding many illnesses by killing microorganisms. -
Periodic Table
Dmitri Mendeleev wrote the Periodic table -
Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell created the telephone.
This invention was a really important contribution to the progress of the world because it made a change in telecommunications. -
Typewriter
A typewriter is a mechanical or electromechanical machine for writing characters.
The first typewriter to be commercially successful was invented in 1878 by Americans Christopher Latham Sholes, Frank Haven Hall, Carlos Glidden and Samuel W. Soule in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
The typewriter it is another important invention which revolutionized writting and printing world and even though nowadays it is useless, it was the inspiration for modern computers. -
Light bulb
Thomas Alva Edison register a patent, the light bulb. Although there were scientist before him who invented and developed the light bulb, for example Humphry Davis, Joseph Wilson Swan, Henry Woodward, Mathew Evans.
The light bulb was another revolutionary creation. It changed the way of life in cities and thanks to it, nowadays we are able to see even if the sun has gone down. -
Car
Karl Benz developed the first car that was powered by an internal combustion engine.
The car was one of the most important advances of the Second Industrial Revolution and of the 19th century due to its importance in transport. It has many advantages, such as easier mobility for few people, cheaper mean of transport in the long term, etc.; but it has disadvantages such as contamination or traffic jams. Hopefully, electric cars which do not pollute the atmosphere are been created. -
The first discovered virus
Dmitri Ivanovsky discovers for the first time a virus -
x-rays
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discovers x-rays -
Plane
Wright brothers from USA created the plane. The idea appeared in 1899 and in 1903 they were flying for the first time.
The plane was an incredible advance in transport. The human been could fly then. And of course, it brought many advantages in transport, such as faster travels and more space to carry more people and goods.
