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the first boat was in historical time
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3600 B.C.E.: Beds made of goatskins filled with water are used in Persia.
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In Mesopotamia, (c. 1600-1200 BC) by Lyman Blake
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in use by the early 1800s. In 1817, by Charles, Baron von Drais,
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was built by Richard Trevithick in 1804
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Joseph Niepce invented the first camera and used it in 1816
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the light bulb was invented in 1879 by Thomas Edison
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Karl Benz made the first automobile in 1885/1886.
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Guglielmo Marconi sent and received his first radio signal in Italy in 1895. By 1899 he flashed the first wireless signal across the English Channel
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On December 17, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright made the first airplane
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Knickerbocker Knitting Company in 1919
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first black and white tv
made by John Logie Baird -
J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly at the University of Pennsylvania and began construction in 1943 and was not completed until 1946.
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On April 3, 1973, Motorola employee Martin Cooper stood in midtown Manhattan and placed a call to the headquarters of Bell Labs in New Jersey.
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The laptop was invented by Adam Osborne in 1981. It was called ''Osborne 1'' and cost $1,795.