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Early in 2019, Bill Gates called lab-grown meats one of the "10 Breakthrough Technologies" of 2019. For more American inventions and innovators looking to make a difference in the world, check out ...
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 ...
Dean Kamen invented the iBOT in 1999. [26] Kamen filed U.S. patent #6311794 on October 27, 1999 and later being [clarification needed] issued on November 6, 2001. [27] 1999 Camera phone. The introduction of the camera phone in 1999 was an innovation that changed the daily lives of millions of people around the world.
20th Century Fox presents in New York on an 8 m × 4 m big screen the first widescreen movie. The radio station Witzleben begins in Germany with the regular broadcasting of television test broadcasts, initially on long wave with 30 lines (= 1,200 pixels) at 12.5 image changes per second. It appear first blueprints for television receiver.
May 31: Establishment of 20th Century Fox. March 21: Reza Shah of Iran asks the international community to formally adopt the name "Iran" to refer to the country, instead of the name "Persia". June 12: Chaco War ends. September 15: Enactment of the Nuremberg racial laws. October 3: The Second Italo-Ethiopian War begins and goes until February 1937.
Electrification spread rapidly in the 20th century. At the beginning of the century electric power was for the most part only available to wealthy people in a few major cities. By 2019, an estimated 87 percent of the world's population had access to electricity. [98] Birth control also became widespread during the 20th century.
2 Pre-20th century. 3 20th century. 4 21st century. ... 1999 – Discovery of ... 2010-Over the past two decades, a considerable focus has been directed toward ...