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The astrolabe dates back to Ancient Greece (150-220 BCE), it was first used by mariners in the late fifteenth century. -
It is one of the earliest tools, it was an early form of the magnetic compass. (1111-1117) -
People at the time started thinking that having a maps was important, so they began making detailed records of their voyages. The first charts were not very accurate, but they were considered valuable and often kept secret from other mariners -
Johann Gutenberg changed the way books were manufactured, Gutenberg a German inventor, designed a mechanism that would use blocks with pre-written text, this technology, when combined with the use of paper and ink, allowed books to be mass-produced at a far lower cost. -
During the sixteenth century (1490-1510), the chip log was invented and used as a crude speedometer. It was a line with knots at regular intervals dragged across the water and the number of knots that went out over a specific period of time. A seaman would count the number of knots that went out over a specific period of time and the ship's speed could then be calculated. -
In 1730, an English mathematician, invented the sextant, it provided mariners with a more accurate means to calculate latitude. -
Discovery of hydrogen gas in 1766 lead to the creation of the hydrogen balloon -
Chemist Robert Davidson of Aberdeen, Scotland, created the first known electric locomotive, which was powered by galvanic cells (batteries). As a result, it was also the first battery-powered locomotive. -
Karl Friedrich Benz created the first gasoline power unit with an internal combustion engine: three wheeled, four cycle, engine and chassis. -
Windshield wipers were invented by Mary Anderson, who thought it made no sense that New York streetcar drivers had to keep jumping off to clean snow from the windshield. -
The ford model T was the first mass-produced car -
The gyroscopic compass was introduced in 1907. The main benefit of it over the magnetic compass is that the gyro is unaffected by the Earth's, or the ship's, magnetic field, and always points to true north. -
It was invented by General Motors (GM) engineers Clyde Coleman and Charles Kettering. It was first installed in a Cadillac on February 17, 1911 -
First plane to cross the Atlantic in 1919 -
The Galvin brothers’ unit was the first commercially successful car radio, and the first product to wear the Motorola name. -
R. Tradwell invented the first ever coiled spring -
The first practical radar system was produced in 1935. It was used to locate objects beyond range of vision by projecting radio waves against them. This was, and still is, very useful on ships to locate other ships and land when visibility is reduced. -
The U.S. navigation system known as Long Range Navigation(Loran) was developed between 1940 and 1943,
uses pulsed radio transmissions from stations to determine a ship's position. The accuracy of Loran is measured in hundreds of meters, but only has limited coverage. -
In the 1950s are the first flights offered in commercial jet airline, the name of the airline was de Havilland DH 106 Comet -
The Soviet Union took the lead in the post-war space race after launching the first satellite, the Sputnik 1 -
The invention of cruise control made steady driving easier
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Volvo created the seat belts, but they didn't patent it and gave it to other car companies to save lives around the world -
It was carrying Yuri Gagarin, it was in 1961 by the USSR -
Tokaido Shinkansen (series 0), Japan's first electrified high-speed train, opened in 1964 between Tokyo and Osaka. Since then, high-speed rail transit has been established in Japan, Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Taiwan, the People's Republic of China, the United Kingdom, South Korea, Scandinavia, Belgium, and the Netherlands, at speeds up to and above 300 km/h (186.4 m/h). -
In its most basic form, the Internet is basically a collection of computers that can communicate with one another and share information. This includes using electronic mail and visiting websites with important information. When the Internet first became popular, it was mostly utilized by businesses for cooperation but then later it became a platform for social media and entertainment. -
It was Apollo 11, launched in 1969 by the USA. It was commanded by Neil Armstrong and Pilot Buzz Aldrin -
It was launched in the 1980s, and it was called Space Shuttle -
On December 23, 1986, Voyager completed the first nonstop, non-refueled flight around the world. Pilots Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager completed the flight in nine days. -
Tesla developed autopilot technologies -
Nowadays there’s a few companies like SpaceX, and Virgin Galactic, that offer commercial flights to the space to civilians