technology timeline

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    2007

    2007
    iPhone 1, combines mobile phone, Internet communications, iPod and other functionalities. The original iPhone introduced a multi-touch interface control of the functions by dragging finger across the glass display.
  • car

    car
    the first really practical automobiles with petrol/gasoline-powered internal combustion engines were completed almost simultaneously by several German inventors working independently: Karl Benz built his first automobile in 1885 in Mannheim.
  • computer

    computer
    n 1975, Ed Roberts coined the term "personal computer" when he introduced the Altair 8800.
  • airplane

    airplane
    An airplane or aeroplane is a powered, fixed-wing aircraft that is propelled forward by thrust from a jet engine, propeller or rocket engine.
  • tv

    tv
    The world's first electronic television was created by a 21 year old inventor named Philo Taylor Farnsworth. That inventor lived in a house without electricity until he was age 14.