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Chinese inventprinting by inking carved wood blocks.
Wood block printing is a technique for printing text, images or patterns used widely throughout East Asia and originating in China in antiquity as a method of printing on textiles and later paper. -
Thomas Edison invent the phonograph, on a wax cylinder.
Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, the first device for recording and playing back sound, in 1877. After inventing and patenting the phonograph, Edison and his laboratory turned their attention to the commercial development of (electric lighting), playing no further role in the development of the phonograph for a decade. -
The first cell phones are available for sales.
"The brick" weighed 2 pounds, offered just a half-hour of talk time for every recharging and sold for $3,995.
Clunky and overpriced?
Not in 1984, when consumers lined up in droves to buy the first cellular phone as soon as it hit the market. And certainly not to Rudy Krolopp, lead designer of the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X.
Krolopp, now 74 and retired, still gets a "warm fuzzy feeling" thinking about the DynaTAC and knowing that "a handful of us did something that was really significant."
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Tim Berenera-Lee invent the world Wide web.
He is the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), a Web standards organization founded in 1994 which develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential. He is a founding Director of the Web Science Trust (WST) launched in 2009 to promote research and education in Web Science, the multidisciplinary study of humanity connected by technology. -
Marc Andreeson creates the first browser program, allowing people to navigate the web.
Andreessen was always interested in computers, and taught himself Basic from a book before he'd ever actually used a computer. In the sixth grade, he finally got access to a school computer, and wrote software to help him with his math homework. In seventh grade, his parents bought him a shiny -
Byantine ship captains use colored flags to send signals to one another across the water.
The Byzantine navy was the naval force of the Byzantine Empire. Like the empire it served, it developed directly from its earlier imperial Roman counterpart, but in comparison with its precursor played a far greater role in the defense and survival of the state. While the fleets of the Roman Empire faced few great naval threats, operating as a policing force vastly inferior in power and prestige to the legions, the sea was vital to the very existence of Byzantium, which severa