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Apr 16, 1000
Gun
The first devices identified as guns appeared in China around 1000AD. A gun is a normally tubular device designed to discharge a projectile or other material. -
Pencil
The meaning of "graphite writing implement" apparently evolved late in the 16th century. A pencil is a writing implement or art medium usually constructed of a narrow, solid pigment core inside a protective casing. -
Automobile
The first working steam-powered vehicle was designed — and most likely built — by Ferdinand Verbiest, a Flemish member of a Jesuit mission in China around 1672. An automobile, autocar, motor car or car is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transporting passengers, which also carries its own engine or motor. -
Baseball
Hoboken, New Jersey (first recorded game with codified rules) Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a 90-foot square. -
Voice Recorder
used a vibrating diaphragm and stylus to graphically record sound waves as tracings on sheets of paper, purely for visual analysis and without any idea of playing them back. -
Football
under a set of rules resembling those of rugby and soccer. A set of rule changes instituted from 1880 onward by Walter Camp established the snap, eleven-player teams and downs. -
Computer
Charles Babbage purposed and began developing the Difference Engine, considered to be the first automatic computing engine that was capable of computing several sets of numbers and making a hard copies of the results. -
Television
The first practical demonstrations of television, however, were developed using electromechanical methods to scan, transmit, and reproduce an image. As electronic camera and display tubes were perfected, electromechanical television gave way to all-electronic systems in nearly all applications. -
Tank
Their first use in combat was by the British Army on September 15, 1916 at Flers-Courcelette. A tank is a tracked, armored fighting vehicle designed for front-line combat which combines operational mobility and tactical offensive and defensive capabilities. -
Internet
A global computer network providing a variety of information and communication facilities, consisting of interconnected networks using standardized communication protocols.
