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1974: The lithium-ion battery is invented by M. Stanley Whittingham, and further developed in the 1980s and 1990s by John B. Goodenough, Rachid Yazami and Akira Yoshino. It has impacted modern consumer electronics and electric vehicles. [507] 1974: The Rubik's cube is invented by Ernő Rubik which went on to be the best selling puzzle ever. [508]
The crankshaft was invented by Al-Jazari in 1206, [63] [64] and is central to modern machinery such as the steam engine, internal combustion engine and automatic controls. [65] [66] The camshaft was also first described by Al-Jazari in 1206. [67] Early programmable machines were also invented in the Muslim world.
French physicist Alfred Kastler invented the MASER. 1951: First nuclear power plant in the US 1952: Japanese engineer Jun-ichi Nishizawa invented the avalanche photodiode [20] 1953: First fully transistorized computer in the U.S. 1958: American engineer Jack Kilby invented the integrated circuit (IC). 1960: American engineer Theodore Maiman ...
Realistic humanoid automata were built by craftsman from many civilizations, including Yan Shi, [19] Hero of Alexandria, [20] Al-Jazari, [21] Haroun al-Rashid, [22] Jacques de Vaucanson, [23] [24] Leonardo Torres y Quevedo, [25] Pierre Jaquet-Droz and Wolfgang von Kempelen. [26] [27] The oldest known automata were the sacred statues of ancient ...
An axe made of iron, dating from the Swedish Iron Age, found at Gotland, Sweden: Iron—as a new material—initiated a dramatic revolution in technology, economy, society, warfare and politics. A technological revolution is a period in which one or more technologies is replaced by another new technology in a short amount of time.
Quiz: Can You Guess When These Iconic American Food Brands Were Launched? Kris Scott. April 8, 2024 at 1:15 PM ... They were invented the same year that Woodrow Wilson was elected U.S. president.
The mechanical production of dry photographic plates were invented by George Eastman who filed U.S. patent #226,503 on September 9, 1879, for (in his own words "An Improved Process for Preparing Gelatine Dry-Film Plates") which was issued to him on April 13, 1880. [156] [231] 1879 Carton
There is a well-known myth about the word quiz that says that in 1791, a Dublin theatre owner named Richard Daly made a bet that he could introduce a word into the language within 24 hours. He then went out and hired a group of street children to write the word "quiz", which was a nonsense word , on walls around the city of Dublin .