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Electricity
Benjamin Franklin, promoted his theory, that lightning was electrical, through his experiment of flying a kite during lightning. In appreciation of his work with electricity, Franklin was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and was honored with Copley Medal in 1753. -
Money
The first paper notes were printed in denominations of 1 cent, 5 cents, 25 cents, and 50 cents.If you had 10 billion $1 notes and spent one every second of every day, it would require 317 years for you to go broke. -
First Type-writer
Typewriters had been invented as early as 1714 by Henry Mill and reinvented in various forms throughout the 1800s. It was to be Sholes, however, who invented the first one to be commercially successful. -
Eye-Glasses
In 1784, almost two centuries after Kepler’s writing, Benjamin Franklin invented the first pair of bifocals. Reportedly suffering from both myopia and presbyopia, Franklin was attempting to avoid the aggravation of switching between pairs of glasses to read or to see distant objects. His invention had a frame that held two lens sections together. The idea of cementing these two lenses together was not conceived for another one hundred years. -
Contact Lens
In 1887, Adolf Eugen Fick who constructed the very first successful corrective contact lenses.Contact lenses fit three basic functions, corrective contact lenses, therapeutic contact lenses, and cosmetic contact lenses. -
1st Heater
In 1891, Clarence Kemp developed the world’s first commercial solar water heater called the Climax.The solar water heater has been inspired by other inventions like the instant water heater (invented by Maughan in 1870) and later paved way for the storage water heater (invented by Edwin Ruud in 1889). -
Air Conditioner
In 1902, only one year after Willis Haviland Carrier graduated from Cornell University with a Masters in Engineering, the first air (temperature and humidity) conditioning was in operation, making one Brooklyn printing plant owner very happy. -
Email
Electronic mail is a natural and perhaps inevitable use of networked communication technology that developed along with the evolution of the Internet. Indeed, message exchange in one form or another has existed from the early days of timesharing computers. -
World First Cell
Martin Cooperwho was the general manager of Motorola's communications systems division, had the idea that people didn't want to be tethered to a stationary telephone, even if the phone could ride along with them in their car. He thought that the phone should be so portable that it could go anywhere they went. -
1st computer
Short for Atanasoff-Berry Computer, the ABC started being developed by Professor John Vincent Atanasoff and graduate student Cliff Berry in 1937 and continued to be developed until 1942 at the Iowa State College (now Iowa State University). -
Facebook
At only 23 years old, the founder of social networking website Facebook Mark Zuckerberg reign in as the youngest self-made billionaire in the world. Announced by Forbes magazines yearly billionaire list Mr. Zuckerberg shot up to #785 on the list. -
First iphone release
The first iPhone was released on June 29, 2007.Development of what was to become the iPhone began in 2004, when Apple started to gather a team of 1000 employees to work on the highly confidential "Project Purple".[27] Apple CEO Steve Jobs steered the original focus away from a tablet, like the iPad, and towards a phone.[28] Apple created the device during a secretive collaboration with AT&T Mobility—Cingular Wireless at the time—at an estimated development cost of US$150 million over thirty mon
