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1 day ago · 20th century 1900s. 1900: The first Zeppelin is designed by Theodor Kober. 1901: The first motorized cleaner using suction, a powered "vacuum cleaner", is patented independently by Hubert Cecil Booth and David T. Kenney. 1903: The first successful gas turbine is invented by Ægidius Elling. 1903: Édouard Bénédictus invents laminated glass.
- Fritz Strassmann
Friedrich Wilhelm Strassmann (German: [fʁɪt͡s ˈʃtʁasˌman] ⓘ;...
- Timeline of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
20th Century Fox presents in New York on an 8 m × 4 m big...
- Timeline of Computing
Timeline of computing presents events in the history of...
- Fritz Strassmann
May 13, 2024 · Instead it was William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, working in the West Orange, New Jersey, laboratories of the Edison Company, who created what was widely regarded as the first motion-picture camera. History of film details the history of cinema, a popular form of mass media, from the 19th century to the present.
4 days ago · This is a timeline of science fiction as a literary tradition. While the date of the start of science fiction is debated, this list includes a range of Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance-era precursors and proto-science fiction as well, as long as these examples include typical science fiction themes and topoi such as travel to outer space and encounter with alien life-forms.
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- Francis Bacon
- 1624/1626
- Utopian novel
1 day ago · Animated movies are part of ancient traditions in storytelling, visual arts and theatre. Popular techniques with moving images before film include shadow play, mechanical slides, and mobile projectors in magic lantern shows (especially phantasmagoria ). Techniques with fanciful three-dimensional moving figures include masks and costumes ...
3 days ago · This list of genocides includes estimates of all deaths which were directly or indirectly caused by genocides that are recognised in significant scholarship as genocides. It excludes mass killings which have not been explicitly defined as genocidal, but called mass murder, crimes against humanity, politicide, classicide, or war crimes, such as the Thirty Years' War (4.5 to 8 million deaths ...
3 days ago · 19th century. Walt Whitman circa 1860. 1860: Walt Whitman, considered by many academics to be either gay or bisexual, publishes a cluster of homoerotic poems under the title Calamus. [4] 1869: First cross-dressing ball is held at the Hamilton Lodge in Harlem. [5] [6]
2 days ago · This is a list of the largest known epidemics and pandemics caused by an infectious disease in humans. Widespread non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease and cancer are not included. An epidemic is the rapid spread of disease to a large number of people in a given population within a short period of time; in meningococcal ...
