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2005: YouTube, the first popular video-streaming site, was founded; 2007: Netflix debuted the first popular video-on-demand service; 2007: Apple Inc. released the iPhone; 2007: The Bank of Scotland develops the world's first banking app; 2007: SoundCloud, the first on-demand service to focus on music is debuted
1870 Feather duster. A feather duster is an implement used for cleaning. It consists typically of a wooden-dowel handle and feathers that are wound onto the handle by a wrapped wire. In 1870, the original idea for the feather duster was conceived in a broom factory in Jones County, Iowa. A farmer brought a bundle of turkey feathers into the ...
The following articles cover the timeline of United States inventions: Timeline of United States inventions (before 1890), before the turn of the century; Timeline of United States inventions (1890–1945), before World War II; Timeline of United States inventions (1946–1991), during the Cold War
1900 Fly swatter. A fly swatter is a hand-held device for swatting and killing flies and other insects. The first modern fly-destruction device was invented in 1900 by Robert R. Montgomery, an entrepreneur based in Decatur, Illinois. [75] On January 9, 1900, Montgomery was issued U.S. patent #640,790 for the "Fly-Killer". [76] 1900 Thumbtack
As a result, the United States has been the birthplace of 161 of Encyclopædia Britannica ' s 321 Greatest Inventions, including items such as the airplane, internet, microchip, laser, cellphone, refrigerator, email, microwave, personal computer, liquid-crystal display and light-emitting diode technology, air conditioning, assembly line ...
Innovation as a Social Process: Elihu Thomson and the Rise of General Electric, 1870-1900 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991). Haney, John L. The Elihu Thomson Collection American Philosophical Society Yearbook 1944. Hughes, Thomas "American Genesis" (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2004). Thomson, Elihu.
Bonsack's partnership with tobacco industrialist James Buchanan Duke made full commercial use of the invention, which could produce 120,000 cigarettes in 10 hours, [7] (200 per minute), and thereby revolutionized the cigarette industry. [6] [10] Duke set a deal with the Bonsack Machine Company in 1884. Duke agreed to produce all cigarettes with ...
Video telephony connections between booths in Berlin and Leipzig. Later connections from Berlin to Nuremberg and Munich added. The Frenchman Raymond Valtat reports on a patent, which describes the principle of working with binary numbers abacus. Konrad Zuse works on a dual electromechanical computing machine that is ready in 1937. 1937