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Al-Jazari wrote the Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices.
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Jerónimo de Ayanz y Beaumont patented the first steam engine.
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Joseph Jacquard built an automated loom that was controlled with punched cards.
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Georg Ohm quantified the relationship between the electric current and potential difference in a conductor.
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Michael Faraday discovered electromagnetic induction.
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Institution of Mechanical Engineers formed in Britain.
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World's first cog railway.
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James Clerk Maxwell published a unified theory of electricity and magnetism in a book called Electricity and Magnetism.
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Nikolai Tesla created the first remote-controlled vehicle.
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Ransom Olds, patented the modern assembly line and used it in the Olds Motor Vehicle Company factory.
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William B. Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Brattain invented the transistor.
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John T. Parsons built the first Numerically Controlled (NC) machine
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Jack Kilby invented the integrated circuit.
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The first industrial robot, called UNIMATE, was installed in a General Motors automobile factory in New Jersey.
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Ted Hoff and a team at the Intel Corporation invented the first commercial microprocessor
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Paul Berg created the first recombinant DNA molecules.
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Rudolf Jaenisch created the first transgenic animal, a mouse.
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Tuomo Suntola patented the process of atomic layer deposition for depositing uniform thin films one atomic layer at a time.
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The term nanotechnology was first used by Japanese scientist Norio Taniguchi.
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The first genetic engineering company, Genentech, was created by Herbert Boger and Robert Swanson.
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Takeo Kanade built the direct drive arm with motors installed directly into the joints of the arm.
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The scanning tunneling microscope was invented.
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The FDA approved synthetic insulin for sale.
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Fullerenes were discovered.
