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Image credits: Nationaal Archief #11 Revolving Book Case, From Page 202 Of History And Description Of The Crystal Palace And The Exhibition Of The World's Industry In 1851
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
4. Post-it Notes. Who: Spencer Silver, American chemist When: 1980 How it was created: While working on discovering a strong adhesive, Silver created low-tack glue that stuck to objects but could ...
This is a list of lost inventions - technologies whose original capabilities cannot be recreated in the same form anymore. It does not include theoretical inventions. It does not include theoretical inventions.
The names of some modern inventions (atomic bomb, credit card, robot, space station, oral contraceptive and borazon) exactly match their fictional predecessors. A few works correctly predicted the years when some technologies would emerge, such as the first sustained heavier-than-air aircraft flight in 1903 and the first atomic bomb explosion ...
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.
A history of multiple discoveries involving LATE appears in Baker and Lindeman (2024). [ 127 ] 1998: Saul Perlmutter , Adam G. Riess , and Brian P. Schmidt —working as members of two independent projects, the Supernova Cosmology Project and the High-Z Supernova Search Team —simultaneously discovered in 1998 the accelerating expansion of the ...
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.