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1993: IBM created the first mobile app with SIMON; it had 10 built-in apps from Email to Calendar. 1994: IBM Simon, the world's first smartphone, is developed by IBM. 1994: First generation of Bluetooth is developed by Ericsson Mobile. A form of data communication on short distances between electronic devices.
Mikhail Mil (1909–1970), Russia – Mi-series helicopter aircraft, including Mil Mi-8 (the world's most-produced helicopter) and Mil Mi-12 (the world's largest helicopter) Alexander Miles (1838–1918), U.S. – system for automatically opening and closing elevator doors; David L. Mills (1938–2024), U.S. – Fuzzball router, Network Time ...
#20 Revolving Book Case, From Page 202 Of History And Description Of The Crystal Palace And The Exhibition Of The World's Industry In 1851 This piece of furniture certainly looks interesting.
The 100 known most prolific inventors based on worldwide utility patents are shown in the following table. While in many cases this is the number of utility patents granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, it may include utility patents granted by other countries, as noted by the source references for an inventor.
Engineers during World War Two test a model of a Halifax bomber in a wind tunnel, an invention that dates back to 1871.. The following is a list and timeline of innovations as well as inventions and discoveries that involved British people or the United Kingdom including the predecessor states before the Treaty of Union in 1707, the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland.
The best-known member of the anti-cholesterol statin family of drugs, Lipitor is the biggest-selling prescription drug in history. Countless patients at high risk for heart disease have extended ...
Many Native American contributions to our modern world often go unrecognized, according to Gaetana DeGennaro, a museum specialist at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian.
2000 BC: Multiplication tables in a base-60, rather than base-10 (decimal), system from Babylon. [7] 2000 BC: Primitive positional notation for numerals is seen in the Babylonian cuneiform numerals. [8] However, the lack of clarity around the notion of zero made their system highly ambiguous (e.g. 13 200 would be written the same as 132). [9]