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1492
Flying machine
Leonardo daVinci designs a flying machine. -
Princess Phone
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First horse drawn bus service.
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First turnpike roads open.
They are privately owned and maintained roads that travellers have to pay to use. -
First canal opens -- The Bridgwater Canal
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First self-propelled road vehicle
First self-propelled rad vehicle invented by Nicolas Joseph Cugnot. -
First hot air balloons and first practical steam paddle boat.
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First steam powered locomotive
Designed for roads by Richard Trevithick -
First passenger tram
First passenger tram with open carriages but smoother ride than bumpy road horse bus. -
Invention of first practical steam powered railroad locomotive
George Stephenson - inventor -
Steamships begin to cross the English Channel
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Difference Engine
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First passenger railway opens
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Horse drawn omnibuses introduced in London
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Michael Faraday -- builds first electric moto
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Moses Farmer lights his house in Salem Massachusetts.
Moses Farmer lights his house in Salem,
Massachusetts, by electric lamps that contain a
glowing platinum wire. The current is supplied by
batteries. -
Generators first constructed.
Generators with electromagnets in the field are
first constructed. -
Liquid Telephone
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Bell patents the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell patents the
telephone, which transmits speech over
electric wires. -
Phonograph
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Wall Set
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First electric tram (in Germany)
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Edison establishes a generating station
Edison establishes a central
generating station at Pearl Street in lower
Manhattan, serving 85 customers in a one-square mile
area. Edward Weston begins manufacturing
electric meters. The first water-powered plant for
generating electricity is built in Appleton, Wisconsin. -
Steam powered tram introduced - noisy and dirty
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Karl Benz builds the world's first practical automobile to be powered by an internal combustion engine.
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First electric fan
Schuyler Wheeler makes the first electric fan, using
an electric motor to turn a propeller placed on the
end of a shaft. -
alternating current generator
Nikola Tesla, a Serbian electrical engineer
who had immigrated to the United States
and was working with Edison, introduces the
alternating current generator, allowing
electricity to be distributed longer distances
than the two miles possible with direct
current generators. Everyone but Edison
agrees AC is superior to DC. Even Edison’s
own company – Edison Electric Company,
now called General Electric – eventually
switches to AC. All electric motors today run
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First successful motion picture device
Edison invents one of the first successful
motion-picture devices. -
Pneumatic rubber tires invented
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Daguerreotype Camera
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The Zeppelin invented
Ferdinand vonZeppelin invents the first successful airship. -
Brownie Camera
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the Wright Brothers invent and fly the first engined airplane
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Second power station at Niagra Falls
General Electric completes a second power station
at Niagara Falls. -
first electric powered washing machine
Alva Fisher develops an electrically-powered
washing machine. -
German Leica
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talking pictures
Edison connects the phonograph and
George Eastman’s camera to make
talking pictures. -
Dial Telephone
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Planes begin to carrying passengers between London and Paris
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working television created
Working television models are created. -
Exakta SLR
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Rural Electrification Administrations
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs
legislation establishing the Rural Electrification
Administration and making federal funds
available for rural electric service. -
ENIAC
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televisions go on sale
First postwar television sets go on sale -
Touchtone Phone
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Polaroid Model 95
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Audio Cassette
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IBM 650
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8 track cassette
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Kenbak 1
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Boombox
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Apple 1
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Polaroid Land
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Walkman
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Commodore 64
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Sony Betacam
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Motorola DynTAC
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Compact Disc
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Apple Macintosh
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J-SH04
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Sony Mini Disc
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Nokia 9000
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iMAC
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iPod 1st Generation
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Canon EOS
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GoPro Digital Hero
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iPhone 1st Generation
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Amazon Kindle
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iPhone 1st Generation
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MacBook Air
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Chormebook
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Sony Mavica