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First tools. Humans make the first tools from stone, wood, antlers and bones.
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Fire. Humans discover fire
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Wheel. The credit of the wheel has been credited to the Elamites because the sculptures are the earliest to portray it.
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Static electricity. Thales of Miletus discovers static electricity.
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Hot air ballon. Nazca people on Peru are believed to have experimented with ballon flight.
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Lighthouse. Ancient Egyptians invented lighthouses, including the huge of Alexandria. It collapsed following a series of earthquakes between 956 and 1323.
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Magnetic compass. Chinese invent magnetic directions finders.
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Windmill. Windmills are invented in the Middle East.
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Ancestor of modern toilet. Arabic engineer al-Jazzar invents a flushing hand-washing machine.
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Printer. Johannes Gutenberg pioneers the modern printing press, using rearrangeable metal letters called movable type
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Microscope. A Dutch spectacle maker named Zanssen made the first compound microscope.
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Thermometer. The individual floats rise or fall in proportion to their respective density and the density of the surrounding liquid as the temperature changes.
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Telescope. Galilieo Galilei built a practical telescope and made new asstronomical discoveries.
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Pendulum clock. Christian Huygens develops the pendulum clock using Galileo´s earlier discovery that a swinging pendulum can be used to keep time.
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Speech synthesizer. Speech synthesizer is the artificial production of human speech.
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Voltaic pile. The first battery.
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Photograph. First modern photograph taken by Joseph Niepce
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Fax machine. Scotsman Alexander Bain invented a primitive fax machine based on chemical technology.
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Typewriter. First modern typewriter with QWERTY keyboard.
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Telephone. Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone, though the true ownership of the invention remains controversial even today.
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Radio Control. In 1898, at an exhibition at Madison Square Garden, Nikola Tesla demonstrated a small unmanned boat that used a cohered based radio control.
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Airplane. Wilbur and Orville Wright made four brief flights at Kitty Hawk with their first powered aircraft.
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Ford model T. The world´s fist truly affordable car.
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Television. Philo Farnsworth transmitted the first live human images using his television system, including a three and a half-inch image of his wife Pem.
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Electric refrigerator. The first refrigerator to see widespread use was the General Electric "Monitor-Top"
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Helicopter. Rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by horizontally- spinning rotors
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Nuclear reactor. Enrico Fermi builds the first nuclear chain reactor at the University of Chicago
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DAC-1. IBM and General Motors developed Design Augmented by Computers-1(DAC-1) the first computer-aided design (CAD) system.
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LED. Led lamps have lifespan many times longer than equivalent incandescent lamps, and are significantly more efficient than most flourescent lamps.
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Mobile phone. The first handheld cellphone, Motorola DynaTAC 8000X.
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Apple 1. One of the world´s first personal home computers
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CD. A new way to store music by the Sony and Philips corporations.
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World Wide Web. Information system where documents and web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators
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IPod.Apple revolutionizes music listening by unveiling its iPod MP3 music player.
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Vacuum Claning Robot. IRobot Corporation releases the first version of its Roomba vacuum cleaning robot
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IPhone. Apple introduced a touchscreen cellphone called the IPhone.
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3D TV. Most modern 3D television sets use an active shutter 3D system, and some are autostereoscopic without the need of glasses.
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Hyperloop. A giant, pneumatic tube transport system.
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Supercomputers. The world´s fastes computers are now a mere 30 times less powerfull than human brains
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Miniature Machines. Three nanotechnologists win the nobel price in chemistry for building miniature machines out of molecules.
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Quantum computer. Google claims to have achieved "quantum supermacy" -with a quantum computer that calculates faster than conventional one.
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