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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 ...
Image credits: Isabella Thornton #2 An Early Motorised Scooter. The Autoped was an early vision of today's scooters. This was a personal transport system originally developed in 1915.
Michael Bell (born 1938), together with Melanie Chartoff (born 1950), U.S. – a gray water recycling device for reuse of shower and sink water in the home Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922), UK, Canada, and U.S. – telephone
1896 - Guglielmo Marconi receives a patent for his newest invention: the radio. 1947 - The Shelter Island Conference on the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics convenes in New York. 1949 - Birth of Heather Couper, British astronomer; 1966 - Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarumon the Moon, becoming the first US spacecraft to soft land on another ...
Image credits: Sasha Weilbaker #4 Wind Blades. Humpback Whales are one of the largest weighing animals of the world, yet they are profound swimmers, which attributes down to its flippers (fins).
Copper and arsenic bronze were developed towards the end of this period, and of course the use of many softer materials such as wood, bone, and fibers continued. Domestication spread both in the sense of how many species were domesticated, and how widespread the practice became. 10,000 BC – 9000 BC: Agriculture in the Fertile Crescent [85] [86]
1962 - Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit 1997 - London , scientists report their DNA analysis findings from a Neandertal skeleton which support the out of Africa theory of human evolution placing an " African Eve " at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago
Today, of course, you can find practically anything you need on Amazon, which was valued at $1.7 trillion – yes, trillion with a 't' – in 2020. Wikimedia Commons 1995: eBay