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