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From Benjamin Franklin's lightning rod to the Hubble Space Telescope, this timeline covers some of America's technological innovations and inventions.
- The Airplane
- The Theory of Relativity
- Color Photography
The first airplane was a massive moment in history as it would go on to change the way people travel and fight wars. Even more so, it made the world much smaller allowing for the sharing of cultures and ideas. As you are well aware, the Wright brothers were the first to invent aircraft controls that made fixed-wing powered flight possible in 1903.
From t-shirts to actual classrooms, E = mc² is just about everywhere. Published by Mr. Einstein himself, this equation will go down in physics as one of the most famous equations in history. Einstein’s theories on the nature of the universe, including the theory of relativity are still being proven to this day.
Before the creation of social media, people actually took photos of objects and printed them out. Before even that, taking pictures in color was a far off dream until Auguste and Louis Lumiere came along. Using electronic sensors or light-sensitive chemicals on a camera, color information was recorded at the time of exposure to create the first col...
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- Telephone (1876) As early as 1860, an Italian inventor named Antonio Meucci demonstrated a “talking telegraph” that he called a telettrofono, an electromagnetic device that could transmit speech over electrical wires.
- Phonograph (1878) Thomas Edison and his phonograph. Thomas Edison was by far the most prolific and well-known inventor of the Gilded Age, and his fame started with the phonograph, the first machine for recording and playing back sound.
- Incandescent Light Bulb (1879) Thomas Edison with the incandescent light bulb. After the phonograph, Edison dedicated himself to the quest for a practical, long-lasting electric light bulb.
- Automobile (1886) The world's first automobile: a 3-wheeled open buggy designed by Carl Benz in 1886, seen in the Dresden Transport Museum. German engineer Carl Benz is credited with patenting the first gas-powered automobile, the three-wheeled Patent Motor Car No. 1, in 1886.
- 1744 - Benjamin Franklin - Benjamin Franklin invents the Franklin stove and in 1747 invents the lightning rod. Franklin also invents the odometer and bifocal glasses.
- 1765 - James Watt - James Watt invents the first modern steam engine.
- 1782 - Jacob Yoder - Jacob Yoder invents the Flatboat for inland waterways.
- 1783 - Montgolfier Brothers - Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier fly the first Hot Air Balloon.
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- The icebox. The first wooden icebox was created by Thomas Moore in Maryland in 1802. This box was lined with insulating materials like tin and zinc with a large block of iced stored in a compartment at the top.
- The cotton gin. Invented by Eli Whitney in Georgia in 1793, the cotton gin machine was used to separate cotton seeds from raw cotton. This machine allowed for much faster production times for cleaning cotton, which had previously been done by enslaved people.
- The steel plough. In 1837, a blacksmith in Illinois called John Deere invented the steel plough. Previously, farmers had used cast iron ploughs, which would easily get caked in soil, making them cumbersome to work with and in need of constant cleaning.
- The aeroplane. Though a manned glider was invented by George Cayley in 1853, Orville and Wilbur Wright would invent the first plane not powered by wind in 1903.
Jul 21, 2009 · Pittsburgh wins the best of nine games, 5-3. October 10: British suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst (1828–1928) founds the Women's Social and Political Union, a militant organization that will campaign for women's suffrage until 1917. December 1: The first silent movie, " The Great Train Robbery ," is released.
Some examples of patented inventions between the years 1890 and 1945 include John Froelich's tractor (1892), Ransom Eli Olds' assembly line (1901), Willis Carrier's air-conditioning (1902), the Wright Brothers' airplane (1903), and Robert H. Goddard's liquid-fuel rocket (1926).
