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Farming Industry
The year 9,500 BC saw to the first agriculture crops such as hulled barley, peas, lentils, bitter vetch, chick peas and flax. -
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Banking
The first bank was the central Bank of England made in 1694 by William of Orange to fund wars and had become a foreign exchange storing foreign country’s gold. -
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Steam Engine
The first crude steam-powered machine was built by Thomas Savery, of England who built his machine to help pump water out of coal mines. -
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Textile Industry
In 1764, the 'spinning jenny' was invented by James Hargreaves as the first machine to improve upon the spinning wheel. -
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Retail/Trade
At the end of the 18th century, most people no longer possessed the facilities to grow their own food. This gave rise to the high street, where market stalls became shops and fixed prices and new services such as home delivery and store credit were introduced. -
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Cement
In 1824, an Englishman named Joseph Aspdin invented Portland cement by burning finely ground chalk and clay in a kiln until the carbon dioxide was removed. -
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Photo - Print
The earliest known surviving photograph made in a camera was taken by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in 1826 or 1827. -
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Telegraph (earliest communication)
Developed in the 1830s and 1840s by Samuel Morse (1791-1872) and other inventors, the telegraph revolutionized long-distance communication. It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations. -
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Mining
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Kodak
1888, Rochester The Eastman Kodak Company is an American technology company that produces imaging products with its historic basis on photography. The company is headquartered in Rochester, New York, and is incorporated in New Jersey. -
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Radio
In 1901, Marconi conducted the first successful transatlantic experimental radio communications. -
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Aircraft
In the year 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright made four brief flights at Kitty Hawk with their first powered aircraft and invented the first successful airplane. -
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TV
Electronic television was first successfully demonstrated in San Francisco in 1927, designed by Philo Taylor Farnsworth -
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Computer
First programmable computer. The Z1 was created by German Konrad Zuse in his parents' living room between 1936 and 1938. It is considered to be the first electro-mechanical binary programmable computer, and the first really functional modern computer.Jan 24, 2018 -
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Record
In 1951, Ewing Dunbar Nunn founded the label Audiophile Records, which released a series of 78 rpm-mastered albums that were microgroove and pressed on vinyl -
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Gaming
One of the early games was Spacewar!, which was developed by computer scientists. Early arcade video games developed from 1972 to 1978. During the 1970s, the first generation of home consoles emerged, including the popular game Pong and various "clones". -
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Mobile Phones
On September 21, 1983, Motorola made history when the FCC approved the 8000X, the world's first commercial portable cell phone.