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Strokes of genius Each and every day, there are brilliant minds working behind the scenes to develop inventions and technology that make our lives better, easier, or just plain more fun. Depending ...
The timeline of historic inventions is a chronological list of particularly significant technological inventions and their inventors, where known. [ a ] The dates in this article make frequent use of the units mya and kya , which refer to millions and thousands of years ago, respectively.
From flying cars to ancient earthquake detectors to automated doors, it turns out the world has been filled with futuristic inventions far longer than we realized. #1 An Ancient Earthquake Detector
A timeline of United States inventions (1890–1945) encompasses the 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.
From the first Apple computer to the COVID-19 vaccine, here are the most revolutionary inventions that were born in the U.S.A. in the past half-century.
January 3 – Reginald Punnett (born 1875), English geneticist. January 16 – Robert J. Van de Graaff (born 1901), American physicist. January 19 – Casimir Funk (born 1884), Polish biochemist, coined the term vitamin. January 27 – Apollo 1 American astronauts. Roger Chaffee (born 1935) [18] Gus Grissom (born 1926) [19] Ed White (born 1930 ...
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
If you weren't busy watching CNN in the 1980s, you had another brand-new option: Music Television, or MTV. The first music video, fittingly, was The Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star."