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The Invention of the Internet

The Sputnik Scare On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched the world’s first manmade satellite into orbit. The satellite, known as Sputnik, did not do much: It relayed blips and bleeps from its radio transmitters as it circled the Earth. Still, to many Americans, the beach-ball-sized Sputnik was proof of something alarming: While the […]

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Bugatti T13 Brescia in action, Prescott Hill Climb, Gloucestershire. Bugatti T13 Brescia in action, Prescott Hill Climb, Gloucestershire.The left front wheel of this Bugatti leaves the ground as the driver, H Moffat, negotiates a sharp bend. Bugatti Brescias were manufactured between 1914 and 1920. (Photo by National Motor Museum/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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When Were Cars Invented? The 1901 Mercedes, designed by Wilhelm Maybach for Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft, deserves credit for being the first modern motorcar in all essentials. Its thirty-five-horsepower engine weighed only fourteen pounds per horsepower, and it achieved a top speed of fifty-three miles per hour. By 1909, with the most integrated automobile factory in […]

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circa 1910: Italian physicist and inventor Guglielmo Marconi (1874 - 1937), who developed wireless communication. (Photo by Stock Montage/Stock Montage/Getty Images)

Guglielmo Marconi

Guglielmo Marconi’s Early Years Guglielmo Marconi was born in 1874 in Bologna, Italy. His father was a wealthy landowner and his mother was a member of Ireland’s Jameson family of distillers. Marconi was educated by tutors and at the Livorno Technical Institute and the University of Bologna. Did you know? In his Nobel Prize acceptance […]

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A group of businessmen watch inventor Alexander Graham Bell as he opens the New York-Chicago telephone line.

Alexander Graham Bell

Birthplace Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on March 3, 1847. Bell’s father was a professor of speech elocution at the University of Edinburgh and his mother, despite being deaf, was an accomplished pianist. Young Alexander was an intellectually curious child who studied piano and began inventing things at an early age. Both […]

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December 17th, 1903, Kittyhawk, North Carolina: The World's first flight with Orville Wright at the controls. His brother Wilbur is running at the side of the machine.

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7 Gilded Age Inventions That Changed the World

Some of the modern world’s most groundbreaking technologies emerged during this 30-year period.

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Inventor Philo T. Farnsworth with his invention, the first electronic television

Who Invented Television?

Multiple inventors deserve credit for the technology, which had its origins in the 19th century.

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HISTORY: Han Dynasty

10 Inventions From China’s Han Dynasty That Changed the World

The 400-year rule of the Han Dynasty generated a slew of innovations in everything from agriculture to metallurgy to seismology.

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Thomas Midgley, Jr.

This 1920s Inventor Sped Up Climate Change With His Chemical Creations

Thomas J. Midgley is now considered one of history’s most dangerous inventors.

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1877

Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph

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1931

Thomas Edison dies

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1844

Samuel Morse demonstrates the telegraph with the message, “What hath God wrought?”

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1901

First radio transmission sent across the Atlantic Ocean

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1879

Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent light

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1926

John Logie Baird demonstrates TV

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