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1430 BCE
Invention of the Press
The first printing machine was created by German Johannes Gutenberg in the 15th century. Provoked a huge revolution in modernity: the process of accelerating the production of books. After the invention of the press, print and compose books are no longer manual and craftpractices and have become a mechanized serial production. -
776 BCE
First Olympic Games
The first Olympics is traditionally dated to 776 BC -
206 BCE
The Wall of China
Great Wall of China is a series of fortifications built along an east-west line across the historic borders of northern China to protect Chinese states and empires from the invasions of the various nomadic group. -
Period: 27 BCE to 476
The First Roads
With the advent of the Roman Empire, there was a need for armies to be able to travel quickly from one area to another, and the roads that existed were often muddy, which greatly delayed the movement of large masses of troops. To solve this problem, the Romans built great roads. These 'Roman roads' used deep roadbeds of crushed stone as an underlying layer to ensure that they kept dry, as the water would flow out from the crushed stone, instead of becoming mud in clay soils. -
The First Train
The first train appeared in the year 1804. It managed to pull 25 tonnes of iron material and 70 people over the distance of 10 miles. -
The First Camera
A primeira câmera fotográfica foi feita por um francês Joseph Nicéphore Niépce. On January 7, 1839, at the French Academy of Science, the first chamber was presented to the public, "Daguerreótipo", due to the name of the producer: Daguerre. -
The First Package Tour
The first organised tours dated back to Thomas Cook who, on 5 July 1841.
His company, grew to become one of the largest and most well known travel agents before being nationalised in 1948. -
The First Radio
The first steps to radio discovery began to be given in Cambridge by Maxwell. After his death, Henrich Rudolph Hertz built a device in 1887 where sparks were displaced through the air. The first radio system comes through Tesla, a scientist who contributed from a practical and experimental point of view to radio discovery. -
The First Airline, DELAG
The world's first airline in revenue service. Operated Zeppelin airships. Merged with Deutsche Zeppelin Reederei (DZR) in 1935, which continued transatlantic flights until the Hindenburg disaster in 1937. Company dissolved in 1940. -
First FIFA World Cup
The 1930 FIFA World Cup was the inaugural FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men's national association football teams. It took place in Uruguay from 13 to 30 July 1930 -
Web Summit
Is Europe's largest conference on technologies, held annually since 2009. The theme of the conference is focused on technology and participants range from small businesses to the largest. After two editions in Lisbon, the Web Summit and the Portuguese Government announced, in October 2018, a 10-year partnership that allows us to maintain the conference in the Portuguese capital until 2028.
