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first flushing toilet
The first flushing toilet was given to Queen Elizabeth the 1st. Her godson, Sir John Harrington made it for her. This was not the ordinary toilet you have at home, It was a cold litle seat that was made out of stone. -
carrige transportation
In 1700 people started using carriges as a form of transportation. -
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inventions form 1750-2013
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The first self-propelled car was built
Nicolas Cugnot, a French military engineer developed a steam powered road-vehicle for the French army to haul heavy cannons. -
first factory
ment to make the production of goods faster. -
battery
Count Alessandro Volta invents the battery. -
origin of backpacks
These special bags were created to carry hunting equipment and bait. The bags were made of animal skin. They were also sown together by animal intestine to make a durable, fabric-like material. -
washing machine
Hamilton Smith patents the rotary washing machine. Makes home life far easier for those fortunate enough to have one. -
first tattoo shops
The first ever tattoo shops and studios developed in 1800 in america and europe. -
first phone
Significance: Was to converse with friends or family without leaving home. -
firts contact lens
In 1888, A.E. Fick developed the 1st contact lens.By the end of the 1890s, the invention ceased because the eye was not getting enough oxygen causing additional problems. -
first tattoo machine
Samuel O'reily was a New York tattoo artist and inventor of the modern rotary tattoo machine. -
first hershey chocolate company
started making chocolate to cover his caramels -
air conditioner
Willis Carrier invents the air conditioner. -
first head phone created
First headphones were invented by Nathaniel Baldwin. -
fortune cookie
Charles Jung invented fortune cookies. -
first bomb experiment
[first bomb experiment](http://► 10:42► 10:42www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW2clYJmvhE)In a New Mexico desert, the Manhattan Project scientists conducted the initial experiment for the atom bombs. -
todays contact lens
contact lens todayMajor changes were made to the contact lens in 1961 making what they are today. -
Genetic Engineering
this is the direct human manipulation of an organism's genome using modern DNA technology. It involves the introduction of foreign DNA or synthetic genes into the organism of interest. -
bar code
is an optical machine-readable representation of data, which shows data about the object to which it attaches. Originally barcodes represented data by varying the widths and spacings of parallel lines, and may be referred to as one-dimensional. Later they evolved into rectangles, dots, hexagons and other geometric patterns in two dimensions. Can be read by a bar code scanner. -
google
Google was used mainly by Stanford University when it first came out, but eventually it became the most popular search engine in the world. -
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nintendo 64
This video game was extremely popular when it hit the market in 1996. 500,00 units sold within the first four months of its release. -
first "paper"
China was the first to make "paper" paper using plants as the material. They kept it to themselves until some of their papermakers were captured by their enemies approx. 500 years after they made it. -
first i phone
The smartphone completely changed forever when Apple launched the touchscreen-only iPhone in 2007. It took a few years before the competition could catch up.
