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Aurel Persu (1890–1977), Romania – first aerodynamic car, aluminum body with wheels included under the body, 1922; Vladimir Petlyakov (1891–1942), Russia – heavy bomber; Julius Richard Petri (1852–1921), Germany – Petri dish; Peter Petroff (1919–2004), Bulgaria – digital wrist watch, heart monitor, weather instruments
Henry Fox Talbot (1800–1877) invented the salt print and calotype photographic processes J.J. Thomson (1856–1940), mass spectrometer Jethro Tull (1674–1740), horse-drawn seed drill
1900 Electron holography [471] 2012 Mária Telkes * 1900 Solar thermal storage system [472] 2013 Alfred Loomis: 1887 Long range navigation system (LORAN) [473] 2013 Andrew Viterbi: 1935 Code-division multiple access (CDMA) [474] 2013 Aran Safir: 1926 Iris recognition algorithm [475] 2013 Arthur Ashkin: 1922 Optical trapping [476] 2013 Donald ...
[120] [121] As the first person to commercialize Pope's invention, Edwin Holmes acquired Pope's patent rights in 1857 for US$1,500. [122] 1853 Potato chips. Potato chips, also known as crisps in British English, are thin slices of potato that are deep fried or baked until crispy. Potato chips serve as an appetizer, side dish, or snack.
Engineers during World War Two test a model of a Halifax bomber in a wind tunnel, an invention that dates back to 1871.. The following is a list and timeline of innovations as well as inventions and discoveries that involved British people or the United Kingdom including the predecessor states before the Treaty of Union in 1707, the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland.
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 ...
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
1900 Fly swatter. A fly swatter is a hand-held device for swatting and killing flies and other insects. The first modern fly-destruction device was invented in 1900 by Robert R. Montgomery, an entrepreneur based in Decatur, Illinois. [75] On January 9, 1900, Montgomery was issued U.S. patent #640,790 for the "Fly-Killer". [76] 1900 Thumbtack