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James Watts designs a more efficient steam engine
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The first fleet arrives in Botany Bay, beginning British Settlement in Australia
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Alessandro Volta invents a battery to store electrical current; the unit of electric potential, volt, is named after him
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George Stephenson builds the first passenger railway between Liverpool and Manchester
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Publication of the people's Charter in Britain demanding political reform, including the right to vote for every man from the age of 21
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Edward Hargraves discovers gold near Bathurst in New South Wales, causing gold rushes around Australia
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Alexander Graham Bell was the man who invented the first telephone. Alexander was trying to continue with his fathers work on visible speech for the deaf. His education was mainly based on sound. Alexander worked with worked with Thomas Watson on the design of the first Practical telephone.
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The six colonies NSW, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia form one nation
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The Write brothers Orville and Wilbur acheive the first controlled, powered, man carrying aircraft.
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Henry Ford produces his first Ford Model T automobile
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Hoannes adamian was the man who designed the first coloured television. He was a petrol Businessman. He studied at the universities of Zurich and berlin. He designed systems of black and white, as well as colour t.v. He developed theoretical works on colour t.v from M. Le Blanc and P. Nipkov and he became the first person to acheive practical results of colour t.v
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The world's largest steamship, the titanic, hits an iceberg in the north-west of the Atlantic Ocean and sinks. 1517 people die.
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Engineer, Ralph H Baer worked for Sanders Associates Inc. and began to investigate how to play games on television. Ralph and his colleagues Bill Harrison and Bill Rusch created several game tests units. This result was the "bown box", a prototypemof the first multiplayer, multiprogram video game system. Sanders licensed the system to magnovox. In 1972, Magnavox released the design as the Magnavox Odyssey, paving the way for all video game systems that followed.
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Edwin Armstrong was studying at columbia university in 1912 when he devised a feedback curcuit that brought in signals with a thousand fold amplification. This circuit was the heart of all television and radio broadcasting. He earned the Franklin Medal, the highest U.S scientific honor.
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Goerge Westinghouse was the man man who invented the railway airbrake. He was an industrial manager. He formed and directed more than 60 his and and others inventions during his lifetime. His electric company became one of the greatest electric manufacturing organizations in the United States.
