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New knowledge has enabled people to create new tools, and conversely, many scientific endeavors are made possible by new technologies, for example scientific instruments which allow us to study nature in more detail than our natural senses. Since much of technology is applied science, technical history is connected to the history of science.
The Lower Paleolithic period lasted over 3 million years, during which there many human-like species evolved including toward the end of this period, Homo sapiens.The original divergence between humans and chimpanzees occurred 13 (), however interbreeding continued until as recently as 4 Ma, with the first species clearly belonging to the human (and not chimpanzee) lineage being ...
HP would grow to become one of the largest technology companies in the world today. 1939 Nov United States: John Vincent Atanasoff and graduate student Clifford Berry of Iowa State College (now the Iowa State University), Ames, Iowa, completed a prototype 16-bit adder. This was the first machine to calculate using vacuum tubes. 1939 - 1940 Germany
Timeline of computing presents events in the history of computing organized by year and grouped into six topic areas: predictions and concepts, first use and inventions, hardware systems and processors, operating systems, programming languages, and new application areas.
One such example is an attempt by Daniel Šmihulato to suggest a timeline of technological revolutions in pre-modern Europe: [8] Indo-European technological revolution (1900–1100 BC) Celtic and Greek technological revolution (700–200 BC) Germano-Slavic technological revolution (300–700 AD) Medieval technological revolution (930–1200 AD)
The Radio Corporation of America (RCA) leads the music format with 45 RPM records, later to conquer the market for cheap players. The first publication in Germany in this format appears 1953rd; The British physicist Dennis Gabor (1900–1979) invents holography. This method of recording and reproducing image with coherent light allows three ...
The format for sound recordings changed in the years just following the war. In the US, Columbia Records introduced the long-playing (LP) 33 1 ⁄ 3 format in 1948. Columbia made an agreement with Sparton Records, of London, Ontario, established in 1930, for the manufacture and distribution of its LP records in Canada.
While Holly was only one of many involved in the development of the fire hydrant, innovations he introduced are largely responsible for the fire hydrant taken for granted today. In 1869, Holly was issued U.S. patent #94749, for an "improved fire hydrant". [40] 1802 Banjo clock. An example of a banjo clock