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2004: First podcast, invented by Adam Curry and Dave Winer, is a program made available in digital format for download over the Internet and it usually features one or more recurring hosts engaged in a discussion about a particular topic or current event. [545] [546] [547] 2005: YouTube, the first popular video-streaming site, was founded
A tea bag is a small, porous paper, silk or nylon sealed bag containing tea leaves for brewing tea. Tea bags were invented by Thomas Sullivan around 1903. The first tea bags were made from silk. Sullivan was a tea and coffee merchant in New York who began packaging tea samples in tiny silk bags, but many customers brewed the tea in them. [92]
Grain elevators are buildings or complexes of buildings for storage and shipment of grain. They were invented in 1842 in Buffalo, New York, by Joseph Dart, who first developed a steam-powered mechanism, called a marine leg, for scooping grain out of the hulls of ships directly into storage silos. [87] 1843 Ice cream maker (hand-cranked)
Swan's first successful electric light bulb and Edison's electric light bulb were both patented in 1879. [44] Circa 1880: the integraph was invented independently by the British physicist Sir Charles Vernon Boys and by the Polish mathematician, inventor, and electrical engineer Bruno Abakanowicz. Abakanowicz's design was produced by the Swiss ...
During the Fourth International Conference of Electricians in Chicago, electrical units were defined 1893: English physicist J. J. Thomson invented waveguides: 1894: Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi begins developing the first radio wave based wireless telegraphy communication system [6] [7] 1895
The Indus Valley script remains undeciphered and there are very little surviving fragments of its writing, thus any inference about scientific discoveries in that region must be made based only on archaeological digs. The following dates are approximations. The Nippur cubit-rod, c. 2650 BCE, in the Archeological Museum of Istanbul, Turkey
Fort Wayne native Sylvanus Bowser invented and sold the first gasoline pump in 1885, which predates the automobile industry. The pump dispensed kerosene, widely used for lighting and cook stoves.
The SERF magnetometer was invented by Michael V. Romalis at Princeton University in 2002. [28] 2003 Fermionic condensate. A fermionic condensate is a superfluid phase formed by fermionic particles at low temperatures. The first atomic fermionic condensate was invented by Deborah S. Jin in 2003. [29] 2005 YouTube