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Jul 16, 2019 · The First Tank. Now before 1912, the idea of “ the tank ” was already being discussed. French captain Levavasseur originally proposed the idea, an armored vehicle that moved by a caterpillar ...
Jul 19, 2020 · 1 Neon Signs. Discovered in 1898, neon gas was named after the word neos (“new”). Georges Claude was the French engineer, chemist, and inventor who first applied an electrical discharge to a tube of neon gas to create a lamp. In 1910, he displayed two 11.6-meter-long (38 ft) neon tube lamps to the people in Paris.
Sep 23, 2021 · Increasingly, we discover the African roots of many early craft activities. Theresa Singleton, who has studied archeological sites in Berkeley County, South Carolina, points out that “West African culture was thoroughly woven into the daily lives of South Carolinians in the colonial era.” 1 In South Carolina, slave houses were built with African building technology, while in the Chesapeake ...
The history of technology is the history of the invention of tools and techniques by humans. Technology includes methods ranging from as simple as stone tools to the complex genetic engineering and information technology that has emerged since the 1980s. The term technology comes from the Greek word techne, meaning art and craft, and the word ...
Mar 21, 2017 · United States Patent Office, Women Inventors to Whom Patents Have Been Granted by the United States Government, 1790 to July 1, 1888. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1888, 1892, 1895. The Patent Office’s first official list of women patentees, compiled in 1888, is a crucial—but flawed—source for historians of invention.
Industrial Revolution. (1750–1900) The term Industrial Revolution, like similar historical concepts, is more convenient than precise. It is convenient because history requires division into periods for purposes of understanding and instruction and because there were sufficient innovations at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries to justify ...
A timeline of United States inventions (1890–1945) encompasses the ingenuity and innovative advancements of the United States within a historical context, dating from the Progressive Era to the end of World War II, which have been achieved by inventors who are either native-born or naturalized citizens of the United States.
