Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Obsolete technology Replacement Still used for Bathing machine: No longer required due to changing social standards of morality Hourglass: Clock: Tasks where a fixed amount of time can be measured with a low-tech solution: Exposure time tracker in saunas (where electronics might be damaged by the heat or ultraviolet light); retro kitchen timers, board games, other short-term timers.
By using pressurized water directly from the supply line, there is a faster recycle time between flushes. The flushometer is still in use today in homes and public restrooms around the world. The flushometer was invented in 1906 by American businessman and inventor William Elvis Sloan. [121] [122] 1906 Audion tube
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
An AI-powered toilet seat has been named by Time Magazine as one of the top 200 inventions of 2024. ... Photos, Frankfort, Ind.,1940. Image ... over 150 years ago can still seem ingenious is ...
Technology played a significant role in World War II.Some of the technologies used during the war were developed during the interwar years of the 1920s and 1930s, much was developed in response to needs and lessons learned during the war, while others were beginning to be developed as the war ended.
Using old technology “What US Steel had was 1940s technology,” Bradford said. ... but they still largely used the older methods to make steel by melting raw materials such as iron ore in giant ...
1940 in technology (3 C, 1 P) 1941 in technology (6 C, 2 P) 1942 in technology (4 C, 2 P) 1943 in technology (4 C, 1 P) 1944 in technology (4 C, 1 P) 1945 in ...
320 kya: The trade and long-distance transportation of resources (e.g. obsidian), use of pigments, and possible making of projectile points in Kenya [20] [21] [22] 279 kya: Hafting and early stone-tipped projectile weapons in Ethiopia [23] 200 kya: Simple glue made of one kind of material, birch tar, in Central Italy by Neanderthals. [24]