American electrical engineer Jack Kilby demonstrated the world’s first integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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American electrical engineer Jack Kilby demonstrated the world’s first integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments.
British inventor Edwin Budding went into partnership with foundry owner John Ferrabee to manufacture the world’s first lawn mower.
What is known as the world’s oldest computer had been in plain view for two years before anyone realised what it was.
The Model T was enormously successful, and at one point half of all automobiles on the road were not just Ford cars but Model Ts.
Abraham Lincoln was issued a patent for his invention to lift boats over shoals and other obstructions in a river.
Although numerous suspension bridges had been built prior to the Brooklyn Bridge, nothing came close to the almost 1,600 foot span across the East River from Brooklyn to Manhattan.
Known as the Orloj, the astronomical clock was designed and built by the Imperial clockmaker Mikuláš of Kadaň and Charles University professor Jan Šindel.
Napoleon granted a patent for the Pyréolophore to Nicéphore Niépce and his brother Claude.
On the 27th December 537, Hagia Sophia was inaugurated by Byzantine Emperor Justinian I and Patriarch Menas of Constantinople.
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