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Scientific achievements, inventions, and discoveries of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; List of Scottish inventions and discoveries; List of Serbian inventions and discoveries; List of Serbian inventors and discoverers; List of Singaporean inventions and discoveries; List of South African inventions and discoveries
The American National Medal of Technology and Innovation. This is a list of notable awards for specific areas of science and technology.Typically these lists give the country of the sponsoring organization, the award name, sponsor name and a description of the award criteria.
1989: First touchpad pointing device developed for London-based Psion PLC's Psion MC 200/400/600/WORD Series. 1990: The world's first web browser invented by Sir Tim Berners-Lee (born 1955). Initially called WorldWideWeb, it ran on the NeXTSTEP platform, and was renamed Nexus in order to avoid confusion with the World Wide Web.
Innovations in motion pictures technology are recognized with the following awards: Academy Award of Merit [1] – an Academy statuette (an Oscar); Scientific and Engineering Award [1] – an Academy bronze tablet; [6] and; Technical Achievement Award [1] – an Academy certificate. [7]
Engineers during World War Two test a model of a Halifax bomber in a wind tunnel, an invention that dates back to 1871.. The following is a list and timeline of innovations as well as inventions and discoveries that involved British people or the United Kingdom including the predecessor states before the Treaty of Union in 1707, the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland.
'BUILD YOUR OWN TELEVISION RECEIVER.' Science and Invention magazine cover, November 1928. An invention is a unique or novel device, method, composition, idea or process.An invention may be an improvement upon a machine, product, or process for increasing efficiency or lowering cost.
Thomas Edison with phonograph in the late 1870s. Edison was one of the most prolific inventors in history, holding 1,093 U.S. patents in his name.. Innovation is the practical implementation of ideas that result in the introduction of new goods or services or improvement in offering goods or services. [1]
An image from John Dalton's A New System of Chemical Philosophy, the first modern explanation of atomic theory.. This timeline of chemistry lists important works, discoveries, ideas, inventions, and experiments that significantly changed humanity's understanding of the modern science known as chemistry, defined as the scientific study of the composition of matter and of its interactions.