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3.3 Mya – 2.6 Mya: Stone tools - found in modern-day Kenya are older and only found on the archetype road. Ancient stone tools from Ethiopia were hand-crafted by Australopithecus or related people. [1] [2] [further explanation needed] 2.3 Mya: Earliest likely control of fire and cooking, by Homo habilis [3] [4] [5]
From the first Apple computer to the COVID-19 vaccine, here are the most revolutionary inventions that were born in the U.S.A. in the past half-century.
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 ...
Brief History of Electronics Timeline ; Date Invention/Discovery Inventor(s) 1900: Old quantum theory: Planck 1905: Theory of relativity: Einstein 1918: Atomic transmutation: Rutherford 1932: Neutron: Chadwick 1932: Particle accelerator: Cockcroft and Walton 1935: Scanning electron microscope: Knoll 1937: Xerography: Carlson 1937: Oscilloscope ...
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 ...
The life of the automobile: the complete history of the motor car (Macmillan, 2014). Schivelbusch, Wolfgang. The railway journey: The industrialization of time and space in the nineteenth century (Univ of California Press, 2014). Takatsu, Toshiji. "The history and future of high-speed railways in Japan." Japan Railway & Transport Review 48 ...
The extent of the Indus Valley Civilisation. This list of inventions and discoveries of the Indus Valley Civilisation lists the technological and civilisational achievements of the Indus Valley Civilisation, an ancient civilisation which flourished in the Bronze Age around the general region of the Indus River and Ghaggar-Hakra River in what is today Pakistan and northwestern India.