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1857 BCE
phonograth
the first machine that could play music was phonograph created by Tomas Edison, it started its use in 1857 it had small cylinders on witch music was -
lightning rod
"Benjamin Franklin's electricity experiments lead him to a valuable application -- the lightning rod, which when placed at the apex of a barn, church steeple, or other structure, conducts lightning bolts harmlessly into the ground." http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/telephone/timeline/timeline_text.html -
the first railroad
the first railway was built in 1803 London and it was called Surrey iron railway, it linked the towns of Wordsworth and Croydon it was two tracks with the distance of 5 feet between them. Railroad had l-shaped rails