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Computers were made to do the very tedious computations of everyday life and business. The first calculators performed...
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Early television had many contributors. The work of several television inventors was based on developments of electricity by...
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Many say the first computer is the "difference engine." The first of these devices was conceived in 1786 by J.H. Müllerr It was...
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John Logie Baird (August 13, 1888 - June 14, 1946) Scottish engineer and inventor of the world's first working television system...
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The answer to this question depends on your definition of a "computer". The earliest "computers" were mechanical devices used to...
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The 1st light bulb was built by Humphry Davy (an Englishman) in 1809. Thomas Alva Edison improved the invention and based his...
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Like all complex devices, the television had many contributing inventors. During the 1870s there were several people who worked...
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The short answer:A Scot, John Logie Baird (1888-1946) invented the television in 1925. Although his first model was very...
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Alexander Graham Bell, a Scottish-born inventor, scientist, philanthropist and teacher of the deaf is the person most widely...
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Submarines were envisioned long ago as an undersea weapon to be used against surface ships, but technology could not deliver one...
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No it doesn't mean NY and LOndon. It was a marketing term invented by a team at DuPont. They went through several names,...
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Alexander Graham Bell conceived of (invented) the telephone at his summer home in Brantford, Ontario in the summer of 1876, and...
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If you mean for sport it is doubtful there is enough recorded evidence to exactly pinpoint any one person or culture. Regardless...
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There were many engineering refinements to the laptop concept. Here are some of the significant developments: The "clam shell"...
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No one knows. The ancient Greeks had former champions from their own cities help them train for the great national Games (the...
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The célérifere, later called velocipede, is said to have been built by the French nobleman Comte de Sivrac in 1791. It had no...
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The compact disc was invented by a collaboration of individuals. There was not any one individual that has responsibility for...
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Invention of the CameraThe camera came in increments ... light (lens):4th - 5th Centuries B.C. - Chinese and Greek philosophers...
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Martin Cooper invented the cell (mobile) phone. He was the first one to make a call and speak on his moble phone. Mr Cooper,...
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Rugby (started in England, 1823) was introduced to North America by the British Army in Montreal in 1868, which played a series...
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The first crude ballpoint pen was patented in 1888 by John Loud, an American leather tanner. The next stage of development came...
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People wrongly suggest that Germans or Americans invented Color Television, since they gave the first color advertised broadcast,...
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During World War II, the United States, with the assistance (collaboration) of physicists, mathematicians, and engineers from the...
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The Chinese, or differential, windlass was invented in 1582.
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the first computer was invented in the US in 1969 at the Rowayton Library in Norwalk, CT"The Father of Computers" Charles Babbage...
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Father of Computers Babbage invented a 'counting machine' called The Difference Engine. This thing was spectacular. In those days...
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"The Father of Computers" Charles Babbage who invented the 1st mechanical Computer.. in 1834 he dreamt of designing mechanical...
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People believe that it was first invented in 1942 by accident when a lady spilled some items on her shirt when trying to scrub a...
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Around 1922. http://members.aol.com/jeff560/chronotv.html === John Logie Baird (August 13, 1888 - June 14, 1946) was a...
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An incandescent light-bulb takes just enough electric current to make a piece of metal glow brightly enough to give out visible...
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Wallace Carrothers, an absolutely brilliant organic chemist who worked for DuPont, and battled severe depression all his life....
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1672 Ferdinand Verbiest invented the first car in the year 1672. It was the first ever car invented and was powered by steam....
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Theres pics of John Logie Bairds Television At the Museum of Television...
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The following are the new inventions:-1. blue ray discs:- in the coming days blue ray DVD are going to become popular bcoz the...
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The first camera that was small and portable enough to be practical for photography was built by John Strognofe in 1685. Some...
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He invented the telephone and he also invented a way to help deaf people hear. Bells successes include: the photophone (a...
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The First TelephoneThe telephone was invented in March of 1876. The famous incident in which Alexander Graham Bell spilled acid...
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John Logie Baird on the 26th January 1926 - First true television demonstrated and a year later in 1927 the "phonovision" system...
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You can't really put the credit on just one or two people. One guy discovered electricity (B. Franklin) then another guy used...
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Microscopes The first compound microscope was made in 1590 in The Netherlands. Hans Lippershey, Sacharias Jansen, and Hans...
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Karl Friedrich Benz, born 25th November 1844, is generally regarded as the inventor of the petrol powered automobile.
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Guitars were developed from early guitar like instruments so the exact date of the first modern guitar is difficult to determine:...
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M16A2 Rifle,Berreta M9,Assalt Rifle,Pistol,Garnad,M1903,and M1 Carbine.
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There are various opinions about the first civilization to have measured time.Some say the Hindus, some say the Greeks, some say...
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Blaise Pascal that guy did it he is not a nerd even though he created a calculator
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No, The typical dry chem extinguisher has ammonium phosphate, potassium bicarbonate and sodium bicarbonate in it. While the...
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Put it in your freezer. because it cannot stay outside and not melt unless the temp. stays under 0 degrees Celsius.
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A walkie-talkie is a hand-held portable, bi-directional radio transceiver. The first walkie-talkies were developed for military...
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Alexander Graham Bell was connected to some American University and studied audio and electrical issues. It could have been on or...
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There are compass systems using MESM. MEMS means micro electromechanical systems. The MEMS compass system uses a vibrating...
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Auguste Gaulin submitted the original patent in 1899 which consisted of a 3 piston pump in which product was forced through one...
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Doug Allison & a local saddle makerThe first recorded instance of any player using a baseball glove dates to the season of...
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Something like 3000 B.C.(out of gold)
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Originally the camera was made to capture a moment in time quickly and exactly. Paintings often reflected the opinion of the...
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Vintarilocos Norte, Philippines
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Manuel M. Malonzo Invented the Cookey Multifunctional Pressure Cooker
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Alexander Graham Bell conceived of the telephone at his summer home in Brantford, Ontario and physically created his first phone...
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Ansewer The first mechanical computing machine was invented in Greece circa 100 BC: It was used for navigation. it was called...
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There is no such thing as 'unbreakable' glass, however, bulletproof glass is actually just normal glass, but, it has a thin...
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Mark Twain was supposedly the first author to submit a typewritten manuscript to his publisher.
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False, he was best known for his Pullman sleeping car. The sleeping car, aka sleeper, is a railroad passenger car that can...
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Yes at the age of 14.
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Walter Winston Taylor. He was in residency at the time in Rochester, New York. Rh-negative babies had little hope of survival as...
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The cotton gin invented by Eli Whitney helped lead to the civil war in the sense that it brought upon more salvery and slavery...
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The steam engine was invented by Thomas Savery in 1698. He was from Devonshire, England. For more information, check out:...
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It was invented in1895 after America wanted something fun to exersice with as these demands increased because people wanted to be...
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The first known analog computer is the antikythera mechanism. It was found underwater in 1900. It is believed to have been made...
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soke them in bleach that's what i always do
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The Greeks had simple thermometers in the first century BC.Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) Italian physicist, invented a basic air...
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AnswerDVD was developed by the Engineers of the company Matshusita. AnswerIt was invented by TOSHIBAANSWER FROM...
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Filipino ScientistsFelix Maramba - built a coconut oil-fueled power generator Eduardo San Juan - astronomy - helped invent the...
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See http://www.artlebedev.com/mandership/91/.
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Jesus Alvero is a famous foreign scientist that has invented the floating cement.
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Somewhere between 18334 and 1835.
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It helped get food and crops to other places while keeping them fresh and it also had food and water on board.
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Babe Ruth invented that. He would be somewhere, a baseball game or a party, and someone he did or did not know, would walk by and...
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They are used to seal motors or machines and rotatin pump shaft or hydraulic cylinder pistons.
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it was St Peter when he first moved to Canada in 1410
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Sir Boverton Redwood. See: http://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/results.asp?image=10400256
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People needed some Visual entertainment. The general answer is that Marconi having invented Radio, visual communication was the...
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The world's first patent for a color TV was granted to a Mexican inventor, Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena. He was 23 years old in...
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Albert Butz of the Thermo-Electric Regulator Co., Minneapolis, is the original creator in 1885 of the "damper flap" which the...
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Elias Howe who invented the sewing machine received a patent in 1851 for an 'Automatic, Continuous Clothing Closure.' Forty-four...
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