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Galileo Galilei designs a basic thermometer.
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Isaac Newton formulates his three laws of motion.
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William Champion develops a commercially viable process for extracting zinc on a large scale.
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Henry and Sealy Fourdrinier develop the paper making machine.
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Henry Bessemer pioneers a new method of making steel in large quantities.
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Christopher Latham Sholes invents the modern typewriter and QWERTY keyboard.
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Guglielmo Marconi sends radio waves signals across the Atlantic Ocean from England.
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German chemist Fritz Haber and Zygmunt Klemensiewicz develop the glass electrode, enabling very precise measurements of acidity.
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Hans Geiger develops the Geiger counter, a detector for radioactivity.
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John Logie Baird develops mechanical television.
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John Larson develops the polygraph machine.
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Peter Goldmark creates color tv. https://www.thoughtco.com/color-television-history-4070934
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John Randall and Harry Boot develop a compact magnetron for use in airplane radar navigation systems.
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Enrico Fermi builds the first nuclear chain reactor at the University of Chicago.
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Soviet Union launches the Sputnik space satellite.
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Robert H. Dennard of IBM invents dynamic random access memory.
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Alan Kay imagines a electronic book which he will call the Dynabook.
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Ted Hoff builds the first single-chip computer or microprocessor.
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Martin Cooper develops the first handheld cellphone.
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Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak launch one of the worlds first personal home computer.
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Akio Morita develops the Sony Walkman, the first portable music player.
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Electronics companies agree to make Wi-Fi a worldwide thing for everyone.
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Apple introduces a touchscreen cellphone.
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Apple releases its touchscreen tablet.
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Elon Musk has his first successful landing on an autonomous spaceport.
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Apple releases their first phone without a bezel.
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Apple will be holding a Worldwide Developers Conference where they will be taking peoples ideas and taking about big things they might be doing in the future.