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Photography.
Before the term photography was used, it was known as daguerreotype, and although part of its development was due to Nicéphore Niepce, the discovery was made public by Louis Daguerre, after perfecting the technique. -
Mobile phone.
In 1854, Meucci built a device to connect his office with his bedroom, due to his wife being immobilized from rheumatism. However, Meucci did'nt have enough money to patent his invention, although he did patent other inventions that he believed were more profitable.
In 1860 Antonio Meucci made public his invention. In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell filed a patent that did not really describe the telephone, but did mention it as such. Finally, Meucci died without justice agreeing with him. -
Incandescent lamp.
Joseph Wilson Swan received the British patent for his device in 1879, about a year before Thomas Alva Edison. Swan reported the success to the Newcastle Chemical Society, and at a conference in February 1879, he showed a working lamp. At the beginning of that year, he began installing light bulbs in homes and signs in England. Thomas Alva Edison was the first to patent a carbon filament incandescent light bulb. He patented it on January 27, 1880. -
The first plane.
The first proper airplane was created by Clément Ader, on October 9, 1890 he managed to take off and fly 50 m with his Éole. Later he repeated the feat with Airplane II that flies 200 m in 1892 and Airplane III that in 1897 flies a distance of more than 300 m. -
Vitascope
The Vitascope is a film projector that was first exhibited in 1895 at the Cotton States Exposition in the US. Its creators were Thomas Alva Edison and Thomas Armat.
Armat, who owned the legal rights, sold the vitascope to the company that produced the kinetoscope. Thomas Alva Edison reached an agreement on August 31, 1987 with Armat through which Edison would be considered the inventor of the phantascope, which from then on would be known as a vitascope
