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Car
Benz & Co by the hand of its founder Karl Benz presented “the motorwagen”, the first vehicle powered by a gasoline engine that only had three wheels. -
Submarine
El Peral was a prototype submarine with electric propulsion made by the Spanish Navy according to a project by Isaac Peral -
Plane
The first proper plane was created by Clément Ader, on October 9, 1890 he managed to take off and fly 50 m with his Éole -
Radio
Italian physicist Guillermo Marconi invented radio, connecting Europe and America for the first time by means of a radiotelegraph signal -
Television
The first time something appeared on a television screen was on January 26, 1926. The protagonist was the puppet of an inventor, John Logie Baird -
Rocketry
Robert Goddard was an American physicist who is credited with creating the first liquid-fueled rocket. It was successfully launched on March 16, 1926. -
Antibiotics
The History of Antibiotics is considered to actually begin in 1928 when a British scientist, Alexander Fleming, accidentally discovered penicillin. Fleming noticed that a mold contaminating one of his
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Nuclear power
The Óbninsk nuclear power plant (Kaluga Oblast, Russia) came into operation on June 26, 1954, becoming the first in history. It had a uranium and graphite reactor. It generated 5 MW with only 17% thermal efficiency. -
Internet
In the middle of the cold war, the United States created an exclusively military network, with the aim that, in the hypothetical case of a Russian attack, military information could be accessed from anywhere in the country. This network was called the ARPANET. -
The personal computer
Kenbak-1. The Kenbak-1 is considered by the Computer History Museum as the world's first personal computer. It was designed and invented by John Blankenbaker of Kenbak Corporation in 1970.