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  2. David Warren (inventor) - Wikipedia

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    1985 ABC news report interviewing Warren about his invention.. David Ronald de Mey Warren AO (20 March 1925 – 19 July 2010) was an Australian scientist, best known for inventing and developing the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder (also known as FDR, CVR and "the black box").

  3. History of spaceflight - Wikipedia

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    On February 12, 1961, the Soviet spacecraft Venera 1 was the first flyby probe launched to another planet. However communications with the probe failed before it could complete its mission. [30] Venera 3, which also lost contact, marked the first time a man-made object made contact with another planet after it impacted Venus on March 1, 1966. [31]

  4. Useless machine - Wikipedia

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    A wooden "useless box" The version of the useless machine that became famous in information theory (basically a box with a simple switch which, when turned "on", causes a hand or lever to appear from inside the box that switches the machine "off" before disappearing inside the box again [2]) appears to have been invented by MIT professor and ...

  5. Black box - Wikipedia

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    A developed black box model is a validated model when black-box testing methods [10] ensures that it is, based solely on observable elements. With back testing, out of time data is always used when testing the black box model. Data has to be written down before it is pulled for black box inputs.

  6. History of timekeeping devices - Wikipedia

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    The idea of using atomic transitions to measure time was first suggested by the British scientist Lord Kelvin in 1879, [204] although it was only in the 1930s with the development of magnetic resonance that there was a practical method for measuring time in this way. [205] A prototype ammonia maser device was built in 1948 at NIST. Although ...

  7. Timeline of rocket and missile technology - Wikipedia

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    The first-stage booster of Falcon 9 Flight 9 made the first successful controlled ocean soft touchdown of a liquid-rocket-engine orbital booster on April 18, 2014. [ 31 ] [ 32 ] 2015 - SpaceX 's Falcon 9 Flight 20 was the first time that the first stage of an orbital rocket made a successful return and vertical landing .

  8. Space exploration - Wikipedia

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    It was the first human-made object to reach outer space, attaining an apogee of 176 kilometers, [22] which is well above the Kármán line. [23] It was a vertical test launch. Although the rocket reached space, it did not reach orbital velocity, and therefore returned to Earth in an impact, becoming the first sub-orbital spaceflight. [24]

  9. Timeline of electrical and electronic engineering - Wikipedia

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    1907: Rosenthal puts in his image telegraph for the first time a photocell. 1911: First film studios are created in Hollywood and Potsdam- Babelsberg . 1912: The first radio receiver is created, in accordance with the Audion principle. 1913: The legal battle over the invention of the electron tube between Robert von Lieben and Lee de Forest is ...

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