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The Wright brothers had invented the first successful airplane.
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Henry Ford installs the first moving assembly line ford
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John Ambrose Fleming was an English electrical engineer and physicist, known primarily for inventing the first vacuum tube. -
Juan de la Cierva was the inventor to invent of the first helicopter called Autogiro. -
Philo Farnsworth successfully created electronic television.
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Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin. This discovery led to the introduction of antibiotics that greatly reduced the number of deaths from infection.
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Robert Alexander Watson-Watt convinced the Air Ministry that his radar set had merit. -
German Heinkel made the first jet flight in history.
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Chicago Pile 1 was the world's first nuclear reactor, built in 1942 by Enrico Fermi.
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Bardeen and Brattain successfully created the world's first point-contact transistor.
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Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer was the first programmable, electronic, general-purpose digital computer -
The first commercial microwave oven was tested in a Boston restaurant.
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The first working fiber-optic data transmission system was demonstrated by German
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Soviet Union launched the earth's first artificial satellite, Sputnik I.
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EBR-I became the first power plant to produce usable electricity through atomic fission.
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Texas Instruments is celebrating the North Texas man who made the integrated circuit, the microchip
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Every now and then, a scientific breakthrough occurs that has a revolutionary impact on daily life.