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1930: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar discovers his eponymous limit of the maximum mass of a white dwarf star; 1931: Kurt Gödel: incompleteness theorems prove formal axiomatic systems are incomplete; 1932: James Chadwick: Discovery of the neutron; 1932: Karl Guthe Jansky discovers the first astronomical radio source, Sagittarius A
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 ...
1900: The first Zeppelin is designed by Theodor Kober. 1901: The first motorized cleaner using suction, a powered "vacuum cleaner", is patented independently by Hubert Cecil Booth and David T. Kenney. [455] 1903: The first successful gas turbine is invented by Ægidius Elling. 1903: Édouard Bénédictus invents laminated glass.
December 9 – Joseph Needham (died 1995), English biochemist and writer on the history of science and technology in China. December 12 – Mária Telkes (died 1995), Hungarian-American scientist and inventor. December 17 – Mary Cartwright (died 1998), English mathematician, one of the first people to analyze a dynamical system with chaos. [17]
The following articles cover the timeline of United States inventions: Timeline of United States inventions (before 1890), before the turn of the century; Timeline of United States inventions (1890–1945), before World War II; Timeline of United States inventions (1946–1991), during the Cold War
Ruth Wakefield of Whitman, Massachusetts, invented chocolate chips and chocolate chip cookies in 1930. Her new cookie invention was called the "Toll House Cookie" which used broken-up bars of semi-sweet chocolate. [236] 1930 Thermistor. A thermistor is a type of resistor with electrical resistance inversely proportional to its temperature.
German inventions and discoveries are ideas, objects, processes or techniques invented, innovated or discovered, partially or entirely, by Germans. Often, things discovered for the first time are also called inventions and in many cases, there is no clear line between the two. German-born Albert Einstein, world-famous physicist
Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, industrial, university, and military research continued to realize gains in the power, maneuverability, and reliability of airplanes: Charles Lindbergh completed a solo non-stop transatlantic flight in 1927, Wiley Post flew around the world in nine days in 1931, and Howard Hughes shattered flight airspeed records ...