1863 Underground Train England London (Paddington to Farringdon) 1865 Yale Lock USA by Linus Yale - also called cylinder locks 1866 Dynamite Sweden by Alfred Nobel 1866 Torpedo Austria by Robert Whitehead from England 1867 Typewriter USA by Christopher Latham Sholes 1868 Air Brake USA by George Wes...
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Mónico Sánchez (1880-1961) was an inventor and engineer from La Mancha known for having created a portable X-ray and high-frequency current machine in 1909. Based in the United States since 1904, Sánchez invented this device, which weighed 10 kg compared to 400 kg for traditional devices....
The rise and progression of the novel seem closer to Charles Darwin's image of a tangled bank, where "elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent upon [End Page 546] each other in so complex a ... WJ Scheick - English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920 被...
Originally developed in the 1920s, CinemaScope was the first filmmaking process to allow for the shooting and projection of wide-screen films without distortion. It became widespread in the 1950s, when filmmakers began using it to draw audiences away from the booming television market. ...
While the term "music technology" may seem to imply amplifiers, electric guitars, and modern turntables, music has long required some degree of technology. Humans have shaped the environment and crafted objects to make instruments and modify sound. All of these inventions, from instruments made of...
Born Sarah Breedlove, Madam C. J. Walker was one of a few Black ladies who knew hair. It was during the 1890s that Walker started to suffer from a scalp condition that made her lose most of her gorgeous long hair. After she sought advice from others and experimented with different...
in human civilization during the Industrial Revolution. Mass production of steel began in the 1850s using the “Bessemer Process.” a technique used to create steel using molten pig iron. Since then, steel has been used to construct everything from bridges and houses to engines and skyscrapers....
By 1880 however inventors had developed modern machines that mass-produced cans from tin-plate. Suddenly all kinds of food could be kept and bought at all times of the year. Other inventions had also helped make it possible for Americans to change their daily diets. Growing populations ...
We know nothing; we have to creep by the light of experiments, never knowing the day or the hour that we shall find what we are after. Everything, anything is possible; the world is a vast storehouse of undiscovered energy. The recurrence of a phenomenon like Edison is not very likely...