What Happened?

By SMarian

  • The First Camera

    Joseph Nicéphore Niépce took the earliest known surviving photograph made in a camera. http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/permanent/firstphotograph/
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  • The First Bicycle

    Kirkpatrick Macmillan invented the pedal-driven bicycle.

  • The Jeans

    Jacob W. Davis and Levi Strauss patented the jeans.

  • The First Telephone Call

    Alexander Graham Bell made the first long distance telephone call.
  • The Phonograph

    The Phonograph

    Thomas Alva Edison patented the cylinder phonograph.

  • Coca-Cola

    “Coca-Cola history began in 1886 when the curiosity of an Atlanta pharmacist, Dr. John S. Pemberton, led him to create a distinctive tasting soft drink that could be sold at soda fountains.”
    http://www.worldofcoca-cola.com/about-us/coca-cola-history/
  • The First Car

    The First Car

    Charles and Frank Duryea built the first gasoline powered car in America.

  • The Hamburger

    Louis Lassen opened his lunch wagon where he invented the hamburger.

  • The Plane

    Orville Wright piloted the first successful aeroplane.

  • The TV

    John Logie Baird, the Scottish scientist demonstrated the first working television system.