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The first form of technology was a radio. Guglielmo Marconi had been experimenting with radio since 1894. In 1901 his reported transmission of Morse code letter S excited the world. -
The m1917 Browning machine gun was made in 1917 and was created by John Browning. -
The television was created by Philo T. Farnsworth. He worked out a plan in 1922, but it wasn't until 1927 that he made the first electronic television transmission. -
An Iowa State mathematician and physicist John Atanasoff designed the first electronic digital computer. In 1939 he and his student Clifford Berry began building the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC). -
On December 2 underneath the football stands at the University of Chicago, a team of physicists led by Enrico Fermi used uranium to produce the first self-sustaining chain reaction. -
The Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1. The space race began between the Soviet Union and the United States, opening up a new front in the Cold War. -
Theodore Maiman made the first laser operate on 16 May 1960 at the Hughes Research Laboratory in California. -
Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn produced the TCP/IP .TCP/IP became the basis for how data is transmitted over the Internet. -
Alec Jeffreys discovered the technique of genetic fingerprinting in a laboratory in the Department of Genetics at the University of Leicester. -
It was first conceived in the 1940s but launched on April 24, 1990. -
The original iPod was the first MP3 player to pack 1,000 songs and a 10-hour battery into a 6.5-ounce package. -
The team behind the AlphaGo artificial intelligence program announced that it had become the world’s best go player. -
The transparent TV was launched by Xiaomi. It is supposed to display information without obstruction.