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Early warning radar, air defence systems. Air traffic control systems, microwave oven. Walkie-talkie. 1930s. Canada (Donald Hings) [3] United States (Alfred J. Gross, Motorola SCR-300) Portable two-way radio communications system for military. Portable radio communications – business, public safety, marine, amateur radio, CB radio.
Timeline of United States inventions (1890–1945) Robert H. Goddard (1882–1945), the American physicist and inventor who built and launched the world's first liquid-propellant rocket on March 16, 1926. [1] Goddard held 214 patents for his inventions and pioneering innovations in liquid-propelled, guided, and multi-stage rockets.
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. Timeline of United States inventions (after 1991), after the Fall of the Soviet Union.
People's Republic. agriculture. space. v. t. e. China has been the source of many innovations, scientific discoveries and inventions. [ 1 ] This includes the Four Great Inventions: papermaking, the compass, gunpowder, and early printing (both woodblock and movable type).
Technology during World War I. The machine gun emerged as a decisive weapon during World War I. Picture: British Vickers machine gun crew on the Western Front. Technology during World War I (1914–1918) reflected a trend toward industrialism and the application of mass-production methods to weapons and to the technology of warfare in general.
History of military technology. The history of military technology, including the military funding of science, has had a powerful transformative effect on the practice and products of scientific research since the early 20th century. Particularly since World War I, advanced science-based technologies have been viewed as essential elements of a ...
Sisal production invented by the Maya. Tobacco. Bottle gourds – the ancient Mexicans learned to first cultivate bottle gourds around 8,000 BCE. Indigenous peoples grew bottle gourds for use as bowls, scoops, colanders, ladles, spoons, canteens, and dippers. Larger gourds were used as cooking vessels.
An exhibit of the "Future Soldier" designed by the United States ArmyA powered exoskeleton (also known as power armor, powered armor, powered suit, cybernetic suit, robot armor, robot suit, high-tech armor, robotic armor, robot armor suit, cybernetic armor, exosuit, hardsuit, exoframe or augmented mobility [1]) is a mobile machine that is wearable over all or part of the human body, providing ...