1805 Amphibious Vehicle Steam power enhances military power. and concluded that no technical test would convince Japan to Coffee drinkers the world over no longer have to chew their brew. At the May 31 and Ernest 1879 Incandescent Light Bulb Improvements in the device by other inventors will continue; workers at B.F. Goodrich will coin the name "zipper" in 1923. The construction amazes the engineering world; Eads will be the first American engineer to be awarded the Albert Medal of the Royal Society of Arts in London. Apple files a suit charging that Microsoft has pirated Apple's user-friendly graphical interface. 1830 Electro-magnetic Motor The suit will fail, and Microsoft's star will continue to rise.
were briefed by Arthur Compton on June 2 about the Interim Committee's 1937 Chair Lift 1983 PC and portions were taken directly from the Office of History and Heritage 1988 Graphic User Interface the upcoming meetings to be held at Potsdam and that it might be possible Cray Research, Inc. introduces its first supercomputer, the Cray-1, which can perform operations at a rate of 240,000,000 calculations per second. 1932 Defibrillator Dawn of the (Washington, D.C., Late Spring 1945) This new technology, which allows the surgeon to operate on a dry and motionless heart, greatly increases surgical treatment options for heart defects and disease. The first shipments of bar-coded products arrive in American stores. early May 1945, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, with the approval of President Harry S. 1957 Polio Vaccine the Bomb, 1942-1945: 1929 Frozen Food Find out more about Alexander Graham Bell,Elisha Gray,Thomas Alva Edison andThomas A. Watson, Sign up for the American Experience newsletter! 1917 War Edwin S. Votey, patents his self-playing piano, which he calls the pianola. After the Great Fire of 1871, Chicago has become a magnet for daring experiments in architecture. Profesoras, profesores, estudiantes: The phone has certainly evolved over the past 150 years, especially in appearance. 1898 Submarine s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script', Convicted murderer Gee John takes 6 minutes to die. The first commercial incandescent system will be installed at the New York printing firm of Hinds and Ketcham in January, 1881. The device will be shown at the Paris Exposition of 1900, where it is called the escalator. The Confederate Merrimac, a wooden hulled ship hastily outfitted with iron plates, holds it own against the Monitor. Franck and included Glenn The determined van Syckel hired a crew of "pipeline protectors" and rebuilt the pipeline. The "Turtle" is used in an attack on Lord Howe's Flagship "Eagle," but attempts to attach a mine to the Eagle's hull fail. production facilities for bomb fabrication. Cladius Ash helps Americans get a better grip on what they're eating. Hunt also invents the safety pin, which he sells outright for $400. Drilling at Titusville, Pennsylvania, "Colonel" Edwin Drake strikes oil at a depth of 69.5 feet. Joseph Henry, Professor of Mathematics and Natural Science at the Albany Academy, builds a motor employing the electromagnet, invented by William Sturgeon in London just five years earlier. its current position of superiority. The next generation of the machine will be abandoned before it is completed due to the onset of World War II. portrait of President Working at Hughes Research Laboratories, physicist Theodore H. Maiman creates the first laser. In late May, the committee of scientists and Beach's single subway car, which features upholstered chairs and chandeliers is driven along the 300 foot tunnel by a 100 horsepower blower. if ( 'querySelector' in document && 'addEventListener' in window ) { Oliver Evans' "Orukter Amphibolos" dredges the waters near the Philadelphia docks. It can store data and perform addition and subtractions using binary code. met on May 31 and then again the next day with leaders from the business Car maker Henry Ford introduces his Model T automobile. legislation and that its members generally held the position that F. Byrnes. Using the OS/360, all computers in the IBM 360 family could run any software program. Evans demonstrated his machine in Philadelphia's Center Square, where he passed the hat for money. 1990 Hubble Telescope Rhodes improves on the ear trumpet with another primitive hearing aid. Truman, formed an Interim Committee of top officials charged with 1801 Steam-Powered Pumping Station In case 1803 Spray Gun Rubber, so named because it could erase pencil, had long been considered a waterproofing agent, but in its natural state, it melted in hot weather and froze solid in the cold. international agreements should be made in which all nuclear research would Its report argued that postwar international control About this Site | How to Navigate this Site | Note on Sources | of free exchange of nuclear research for peaceful purposes and the du Pont de Nemours & Company invents a plastic that can be drawn into strong, silk-like fibers.
Dr. Robert Jarvik implants a permanent artificial heart, the Jarvik 7, into Dr. Barney Clark. Conventional submarines need two engines: a diesel engine to travel on the surface and an electric engine to travel submerged, where oxygen for a diesel engine is not available. The 1877 Phonograph Dr. Alan de Vilbiss of Toledo, Ohio, invented this device to replace swabs as the method of applying medication to oral and nasal passages. 1797 Interchangeable Parts /* fbq('track', 'PageView'); */ Edison's tube recording system produces distorted sound because of gravity's pressure on the playing stylus. Western Pennsylvania witnesses the world's first oil boom. PC's have taken the world by storm, dramatically changing the way people communicate. The first recording replayed is a voice saying "Mary had a little lamb its fleece was white as snow." 1831 Reaping Machine military resistance. possibly convince the Japanese to surrender. 1892 Gasoline-powered Car vetoed Kyoto, Japan's most cherished cultural center, and Nagasaki replaced the weapon in an uninhabited area. The test is successful. 1890s-1939: The "platter" record is born. Edwin T. Holmes of Boston begins to sell electric burglar alarms. Because of its relatively small size and its low $18,000 price tag, Digital sells several hundred units. discussed the postwar fate of atomic energy. Working in secret to hide his operation from Boss Tweed, who opposes it, Scientific American publisher Alfred Ely Beach builds a pneumatic subway under Broadway in New York. This sets off a roller craze that quickly spreads across the U.S. and Europe. 1947 Polaroid Camera Get the latest on new films and digital content, learn about events in your area, and get your weekly fix of American history. Charles F. Kettering, who developed the electric cash register while working at National Cash Register, sells his electric automobile starters to the Cadillac company. His new hat tips automatically. In 1873 he sells an improved prototype to Remington and Sons, gunsmiths, of Ilion, New York, who begin to mass produce the machines.
be held long. An additional 45 UNIVAC 1 machines would eventually be sold. He uses a motor he built to power shop machinery and also builds the first electric model railroad car. The attack should take place as Later, Elias Howe secures patent on an original lock-stitch machine, but fails to manufacture and sell it. Inspired by a Scientific American article featuring a British attempt at a typing machine, Christopher Latham Sholes invents his own. Corning Glass announces it has created a glass fiber so clear that it can communicate pulses of light. Already IBM is a giant in the computer industry, controlling 70% of the market worldwide. This experiment and others will result in the development of the atomic bomb. David Bushnell's "Turtle" submerges by taking water into its tanks and reverses the process to rise.
This eliminated the need for making impressions directly from the type plates themselves, which were heavy and difficult to maneuver. 1921 Wirephoto Government Support, 1942: The camera is pre-loaded with 100 exposure film; after shooting the photographer returns the whole camera to the manufacturer for development and a reload. opinion." 1867 Barbed Wire American Scientists, History IBM rolls out the OS/360, the first mass-produced computer operating system. Jesse W. Reno, introduces a new novelty ride at Coney Island. 1889 Dishwasher Lawrence served as scientific advisors (the Scientific Panel), 1939 Digital Computer I.L. G. Gosling, Lawrence Berkeley National concluded that the United States should try to retain superiority of The canal cuts the sailing distance from the East Coast to the West Coast by more than 8,000 miles. States was preparing to use a new kind of weapon against Japan. U.S. troops arrive on the battlefields of Europe, where new technologies have created the bloodiest conflict in history. 1862 Battle of the Ironclads R.G. 1972 Video Game Events > plant surrounded : 1900. Laboratory. 1806 Coffee Pot put American prisoners of war in the area, or that they might manage to Choices, 1942-1944: Thomas Blanchard of Middlebury, Connecticut, builds a woodworking lathe that does the work of 13 men. Lawrence (the Scientific Panel) disagreed with the Franck Report, however, 1776 Submarine 1999), 45-47. 44600, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mxico, Derechos reservados 1997 - 2022. the present, though they conceded that the United States monopoly could not On a flight later that day, Orville will remain aloft 59 seconds and travel 852 feet. His two-bladed desk fan is produced by the Crocker and Curtis electric motor company. Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi, and Ernest Lawrence Digital Equipment introduces the PDP-8, the world's first computer to use integrated circuit technology. F. a responsibility he shared with General Thomas Farrell, his military aide Birdseye got the idea during fur-trapping expeditions to Labrador in 1912 and 1916, where he saw the natives use freezing to preserve foods. Used first by the Philadelphia Ledger, the machine would become an American standard. GTE and AT&T will soon begin experiments to transmit sound and image data using fiber optics, which will transform the communications industry. Elisha Graves Otis dramatically demonstrates his passenger elevator at the Crystal Palace Exposition in New York by cutting the elevator's cables as it ascends a 300 foot tower. The Interim Committee also While trying to track down a source of electrical interference on telephone transmissions, Karl Guthe Jansky of Bell Telephone Laboratories discovers radio waves emanating from stars in outer space. 1844 Telegraph 1893 Zipper Engineers from the Union Pacific Railroad build a chair lift for the Dollar Mountain resort in Sun Valley, Idaho. since February 1945. First known as the Henry, the rifle will soon be famous as simply the Winchester. John A. and Hiram Abial Pitts invent a machine that automatically threshes and separates grain from chaff, freeing farmers from a slow and laborious process.
To finance the development of his "six shooter," Samuel Colt traveled the lecture circuit, giving demonstrations of laughing gas. These reasons and others convinced the group that the bomb should be bomb and thought they had a right to help determine how it was to be used. 1965 Minicomputer 1908 Model T By the end of 1904, he will have sold 90,000 razors and 12,400,000 blades, but he will die in 1932 with his dream of a utopian society organized by engineers unrealized.
bomb. Difficult Dr. Edwin H. Land introduces a new camera that can produce a developed photographic image in sixty seconds. Gates soon drops out of Harvard. Backed by $30,000 in research funds provided by investors including J.P. Morgan and the Vanderbilts, Thomas Edison perfects an incandescent light bulb. Most Hunt and creates a new lever action repeating rifle. The Nautilus, the first nuclear sub, can travel many thousands of miles below the surface with a single fuel charge. They sell their first software to Ed Roberts at MIT, which has produced the Altair 8800, the first microprocessor-based computer. 1953 Heart-lung Machine Eli Whitney patents his machine to comb and deseed bolls of cotton. By 1927, when it is discontinued, 15.5 million Models T's will be sold in the U.S. Ford owes much of his success to his improved assembly line process, which by 1913 will produce a complete Model T every 93 minutes. dropped without warning on a "dual target" -- a war plant His machine roves and spins cotton. At Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright break the powered flight barrier with their gasoline-powered "Flyer I." 1940 Jeep however, out of fear that the bomb might be a dud, that the Japanese might Political Implications of the Atomic Bomb, which was chaired by James Stimson n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)}; Benjamin Franklin's electricity experiments lead him to a valuable application the lightning rod, which when placed at the apex of a barn, church steeple, or other structure, conducts lightning bolts harmlessly into the ground. Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi, Arthur Compton, 1964 Operating System Samuel F.B. Thompson calls his new attraction the Switchback.
a secret until Japan had been bombed. Alexander Grahams Bell's "Hydrodome IV" sets a world record of 70 mph for water travel. This was rejected, Dr. John H. Gibbon performs the first successful open heart surgery in which the blood is artificially circulated and oxygenated by a heart-lung machine.
Kyoto as the four best targets, believing that attacks on these cities Working as an engineer at the Buffalo Forge Company, Willis H. Carrier designs the first system to control temperature and humidity. 1979 Human-Powered Flight 1911 Self Starter On June 21, the Interim Committee concurred. His steamboat the "Clermont" travels 150 miles upstream between New York and Albany at an average speed of 5 mph. After taking his operation to Chicago, McCormick prospered. William Bullock introduced a printing press that could feed paper on a continuous roll and print both sides of the paper at once. The space shuttle Discovery deploys the Hubble Space telescope 350 miles above the Earth. 1833 Sewing Machine (DOE/MA-0001; Washington: History Division, Department of Energy, January scientists of the Met Lab 1845 False Teeth 1874 Structural Steel Bridge The container immediately hits markets in Europe, where it is used to hold and dispense artists' pigments. Crawford Williamson Long, of Jefferson, Georgia, performs the first operation using an ether-based anesthesia, when he removes a tumor from the neck of Mr. James Venable. and Thomas Farrell is reprinted from Jones, Manhattan, 512. The first regular commercial radio broadcasts begin when AM station KDKA of Pittsburgh delivers results of the Harding-Cox election to its listeners. Oppenheimer, Fermi, Compton, and Henry's motor has no practical use. information on the photograph of Ernest Lawrence, Arthur Compton, Vannevar 1846 Cylinder Printing Press Eli Whitney contracts to manufacture 10,000 muskets for the U.S. Army. Leo Fender launches the guitars that built rock and roll when he debuts his Broadcaster solid-bodied electric guitar. shoot down the plane. The rapidly growing biotech industry will seek numerous patents, including one for a tomato that can be shipped when ripe. } Secretary of State William L. Clayton, and future Secretary of State James 1970 Optical Fiber Given its name by its military designation, G.P., or general purpose, the jeep will be used for numerous transport applications throughout World War II, and will become a popular domestic vehicle after the war. 1981 Space Shuttle Path to John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry of Iowa State College complete the prototype of the first digital computer. Army Air Force officers listed Kokura Arsenal, Hiroshima, Niigata, and The instrument uses instructions recorded on perforated paper to drive a set of artificial wooden fingers poised above a piano keyboard. Working with a team of engineers at his Menlo Park, New Jersey, laboratories, Thomas Alva Edison perfects a system of sound recording and transmission. Dollar Mountain follows with an order for six more. 1888 Kodak Camera connection between the scientists and the policymakers, but after the The J.P. Holland torpedo boat company launches the first practical submarine, commissioned by the U.S. Navy. Robert H. Goddard, Professor of Physics at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, makes the first successful launch of a liquid-fueled rocket at his aunt Effie's farm in Auburn, Massachusetts. while General George Marshall represented the military. In 1969 Moon Landing Using steel supplied by Andrew Carnegie, Eads incorporates a triple arch design, with spans measuring 502, 520, and 502 feet.
Later, his workshop will be used by Alexander Graham Bell as the young Bell pursues his invention of the telephone. 1891 Peep Show While extremely successful, the shuttle program will suffer a disaster in 1986 when the shuttle Challenger explodes after takeoff, killing all on board. At the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Whitcomb L. Judson introduces his clasp locker, a hook-and-eye device opened and closed by a sliding clasp. t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0]; Farnsworth receives backing and applies for a patent, but ongoing patent battles with RCA will prevent Farnsworth from earning his share of the million-dollar industry his invention will create. Early 1813 Armored Warship B. Tyler Henry, chief designer for Oliver Fisher Winchester's arms company, adapts a breech-loading rifle invented by Walter B. The "Seneca Chief" will make the inaugural run through the Erie Canal in 1825. For the first time, two armored ships battle each other at sea. Built in the oil fields at Pithole, Pennsylvania, Samuel van Syckel's five-mile, pump-operated pipeline made oil transport infinitely easier. Escuela Militar de Aviacin No. The flight takes 2 hours, 49 minutes, and wins a [sterling]100,000 prize for its crew, headed by designer Dr. Paul MacCready. In a glass conservatory in London, the Great Exhibition begins. Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, invents a coffee pot with a metal sieve to strain away the grounds. 1870 Pneumatic Subway be made public and a system of inspections would be devised. Emile Berliner, a German immigrant living in Washington, DC, invents a process for recording sound on a horizontal disc. 1875 Mimeograph 1864 Oil Pipeline As to informing the Soviet Union, the His invention will put an end to the polio epidemics that have crippled thousands of children worldwide. meeting, Lawrence suggested that a demonstration of the atomic bomb might The text for this page was adapted from, 16, Col. Ladrn de Guevara, C.P. After 36 years' labor, the bankruptcy of thousands of investors, and the deaths of more than 25,000 men, the Panama Canal is finished. Sitio desarrollado en el rea de Tecnologas Para el AprendizajeCrditos de sitio || Aviso de confidencialidad || Poltica de privacidad y manejo de datos. 1794 Cotton Gin It moves by means of a hand crank propeller. The boat weighs over 10,000 pounds and uses underwater fins to raise the hull of the boat and decrease drag between the hull and the water. The idea for a facsimile transmission was first proposed by Scottish clockmaker Alexander Bain in 1843. Postscript -- The bomb target selection group was chaired by Leslie Groves, the scientists of the Manhattan Project were satisfied that their voices IBM dominates the personal computer market, benefiting both from the production of its own machines as well as "clones" produced by other companies. Robert Cyclist Byron Allen crosses the English Channel in a pedal-powered aircraft called the Gossamer Albatross. A team working under Italian refugee Enrico Fermi at the University of Chicago produces the first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction. No one appreciated this less than the Teamsters, who saw the pipeline as a threat to their business and destroyed it. Alexander Graham Bell patents his telephone, built with the assistance of young self-trained engineer Thomas A. Watson. Harry S. Truman is courtesy the Truman Presidential Library. 1945 Atomic Bomb The first electronically-transmitted photograph is sent by Western Union. Land will follow in the 1960s with a color model and eventually receive more than 500 patents for his innovations in light and plastics technologies. McCormick sold the first unit around 1840; by 1844, only 50 had sold. determine which of these four cities would be the first struck by an atomic
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Skiers no longer have to climb hills to enjoy their sport. 1976 Super Computer Scanners at checkout stations read the codes using laser technology. surrender. The USDA gives the go-ahead for the sale of the first genetically altered organism. The Nautilus, the first nuclear submarine, revolutionizes naval warfare. Einstein are courtesy the Federation of
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Pong, one of the first mass-produced video games, has become the rage. The hand-punched keyboard cash register takes one step closer to obsolescence. Laboratory, Federation of !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s) 1814 Plough In August 1955, a 14-year-oldBlack boy named Emmett Till was murdered by two white men. to produce as much fissionable material as possible to take advantage of The device is a thin sheet of hard rubber or cardboard placed against teeth which conducts vibrations to the auditory nerve. John Jethro Woods of Poplar Ridge, New York, creates a plough with a replaceable cast-iron tip, making farming in America easier. 1948 Electric Guitar surrounded by workers' homes. Noland Bushnell, the 28 year-old inventor of Pong, will go on to found Atari. Home | History Lucien B. Smith of Kent, Ohio, invents the product that will close down the open cattle ranges by closing in cattle onto individual plots of privately owned land. The two battle to a draw. The exhibition became a model for all World Fairs to come. international agreements were not forthcoming, the United States should continue James Boyle, of Washington, DC, makes public courtesy much more convenient for the modern gentleman. Radio experiences immediate success; by the end of 1922, 563 other licensed stations will join KDKA. 1960 Laser 1897 Player Piano 1885 Skyscraper Universidad de Guadalajara. His invention helps to lower wood prices. A team led by J.R. Oppenheimer, Arthur H. Compton, Enrico Fermi and Lo Szilard detonates the first atomic bomb at the Los Alamos Lab near Santa F, New Mexico. 1807 Steamboat The memory called up data by transmitting sonic pulses through tubes of mercury.
1975 Microsoft 1920 KDKA At 140 ft. in length, it carries a thirty 32-pound cannon.