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The timeline of historic inventions is a chronological list of particularly important or significant technological inventions and their inventors, where known. [a]
The past half-century has produced some of the most significant and astounding inventions ever developed in human history, and many notable ones came to life in the United States.
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
This invention was only primarily used with steam locomotives that had booster valves or superchargers to heat the fire even hotter to produce extra power. The coal used was semi-bituminous and bituminous coal only inside the steam locomotives. Sadly, this invention lasted until 1960 when Diesel's fully replaced American railroads. 1943 Slinky
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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 ...
Strokes of genius Each and every day, there are brilliant minds working behind the scenes to develop inventions and technology that make our lives better, easier, or just plain more fun. Depending ...
The envelope detector is an important part of every radio receiver. 1907: Rosenthal puts in his image telegraph for the first time a photocell. 1911: First film studios are created in Hollywood and Potsdam- Babelsberg . 1912: The first radio receiver is created, in accordance with the Audion principle.