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- #p <nat>German<o>inventor<n>Johann Gutenberg<aka>Johannes Gensfleisch<b>1400(10)<d>1468(1)
- #p <o>inventor<nat>Dutch<n>Hans Lippershey<b>1587<d>1619
- #p <o>inventor<nat>Dutch<n>Zacharias Janssen<b>1588<d>1632
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- #e <t>invent<au>Gutenberg<n>movable type<d>1456<c>Germany
- #e <t>inv<d>1559<n>ice cream<c>Italy
- #e <t>invent<au>Lippershey<n>the refracting telescope<d>1608 Oct 2<info>Application for patent was made on this date.
- #e <t>invent<au>Janssen<n>the compound microscope<d>1610(2)
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- // 18th century
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- #p <nat>American<o>inventor<o>diplomat<n>Benjamin Franklin<b>1706<d>1790
- #p <nat>Scottish<o>inventor<n>James Watt<b>1736<d>1819
- #p <nat>American<o>inventor<n>Samuel Morse<b>1791 Apr 27<d>1872
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- #e <t>exp<n>Franklin's kite experiment<d>1752<au>Franklin
- #e <t>inv<d>1769<au>James Watt<n>steam engine<c>Scotland
- #e <t>use<n>telegraph service<c>France<d>1794
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- // 19th century
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- #p <nat>American<o>inventor<n>Thomas Edison<b>1847 Feb 11<d>1931
- #p <nat>American<o>inventor<n>Alexander Graham Bell<b>1847 Mar 3<d>1922
- #p <nat>American<o>inventor<n>Henry Ford<b>1863<d>1947
- #p <nat>American<o>inventor<n>Wilbur Wright<b>1867 Apr 16<d>1912
- #p <nat>American<o>inventor<n>Orville Wright<b>1871 Aug 19<d>1948
- #p <nat>Italian<o>inventor<n>Guglielmo Marconi<b>1874 Apr 25<d>1937
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- #e <t>use<n>gas streetlights<c>London<d>1807
- #e <t>constr<n>London underground<c>London<d>1863
- #e <t>inv<d>1876<au>Bell<n>telephone<c>Nova Scotia
- #e <t>inv<d>1877<au>Edison<n>phonograph<c>U.S.
- #e <t>inv<info>by John Loud<n>ballpoint pen<d>1888<c>U.S.
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- // 20th century
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- #e <t>inv<d>1903<n>Wright brothers' first flight<c>Kitty Hawk
- #e <t>inv<d>1908<n>Model-T<au>Henry Ford<c>U.S.
- #e <t>constr<n>Mount Wilson telescope<c>California<d>1917
- #e <t>inv<d>1929<n>van de Graaff generator<c>U.S.
- #e <t>inv<n>cyclotron<d>1934<info>by E. O. Lawrence and M. S. Livingston
- #e <t>collapse<n>Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses<d>1940 Nov 7<c>Tacoma Narrows
- #e <t>constr<n>Grand Coulee Dam becomes operational<c>Grand Coulee Dam<d>1941 Mar 22
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- // Computers
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- #e <t>inv<n>ENIGMA coding machine<d>1928<c>Germany
- #e <t>inv<n>Model 1 Computer<aka>Model 1 Electromechanical Computer<d>1930<c>U.S.<info>Bell Labs
- #e <t>inv<n>ENIAC<aka>Electrical Numerical Integrator and Computer<d>1954<c>U.S.
- #e <t>inv<n>transistor<d>1948<c>U.S.<info>by Bardeen, Brattain & Schockley at Bell Labs
- #e <t>inv<n>integrated cicuit<d>1959<c>U.S.<info>by Noyce & Moore
- #e <t>inv<n>"C" programming language<d>1972<c>U.S.
- #e <t>inv<n>Apple Macintosh<d>1984<c>U.S.
- #e <t>inv<n>prototype of WWW<d>1990<c>Europe<info>by Berners-Lee
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