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Pages in category "20th-century inventions" The following 126 pages are in this category, out of 126 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
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 ...
20th Century Fox presents in New York on an 8 m × 4 m big screen the first widescreen movie. The radio station Witzleben begins in Germany with the regular broadcasting of television test broadcasts, initially on long wave with 30 lines (= 1,200 pixels) at 12.5 image changes per second. It appear first blueprints for television receiver.
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.
Electrification was rated the most important technical development of the 20th century as the foundational infrastructure for modern civilization. [92] This invention had a profound effect on the workplace because factories could now have second and third shift workers. [93] Shoe production was mechanized during the mid 19th century. [94]
The 20th century saw mathematics become a major profession. As in most areas of study, the explosion of knowledge in the scientific age has led to specialization: by the end of the century there were hundreds of specialized areas in mathematics and the Mathematics Subject Classification was dozens of pages long. [72]
3rd century BC: Archimedes uses the method of exhaustion to construct a strict inequality bounding the value of π within an interval of 0.002. 3rd century BC: Archimedes develops the field of statics, introducing notions such as the center of gravity, mechanical equilibrium, the study of levers, and hydrostatics.
2 Pre-20th century. 3 20th century. 4 21st century. ... 1999 – Discovery of ... 2010-Over the past two decades, a considerable focus has been directed toward ...