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1851: George Jennings offers the first public flush toilets, accessible for a penny per visit, and in 1852 receives a UK patent for the single piece, free standing, earthenware, trap plumed, flushing, water-closet. [425] 1852: Robert Bunsen is the first to use a chemical vapor deposition technique. 1852: Elisha Otis invents the safety brake ...
Image credits: Vintage Everyday When we say "the best thing since sliced bread," we're going back to July 6, 1928. It was on that day that the very first automatically sliced commercial loaves of ...
Heron (c. 10–70), Roman Egypt – usually credited with invention of the aeolipile, although it may have been described a century earlier; John Herschel (1792–1871), UK – photographic fixer (hypo), actinometer; Harry Houdini (1874–1926) U.S. – flight time illusion; Heinrich Hertz (1857–1894), Germany – radio telegraphy ...
The best-known member of the anti-cholesterol statin family of drugs, Lipitor is the biggest-selling prescription drug in history. Countless patients at high risk for heart disease have extended ...
Renaissance technology was the set of European artifacts and inventions which spread through the Renaissance period, roughly the 14th century through the 16th century. The era is marked by profound technical advancements such as the printing press, linear perspective in drawing, patent law, double shell domes and bastion fortresses.
This year, for the first time ever, TIME editors selected 200—instead of 100—of the year's Best Inventions. ... Games. Health. Home & Garden. Lighter Side. Medicare. News. Science & Tech.
2005 YouTube. Born from the PayPal Mafia in 2005, YouTube is the world's most popular video sharing site. In 2006, Google bought YouTube for $1.65 billion. 2006 Blu-ray Disc. A digital optical disc data storage format. It was designed to supersede the DVD format, and is capable of storing several hours of video in high-definition. 2007 Nanowire ...
Invention of the Micral N, the earliest commercial, non-kit personal computer based on a microprocessor. 1967 Thompson, Ken: Created the Unix operating system, the B programming language, Plan 9 operating system, the first machine to achieve a Master rating in chess, and the UTF-8 encoding at Bell Labs and the Go programming language at Google ...