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Christiaan Huygens
Christiaan Huygens concieves the internal combustion engine, but never actually builds one. -
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History of Technology
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Gottfried Leibnez
Gottfried Leibnez pioneers the binary number system now used in virtually all computers -
John Harrison
John Harrison develops reliabe chronometers (seafaring clocks) that allows sailors to measure longitude accurately for the first time. -
Alessandro
Italian Alessandro makes the first battery. -
Michael Farady
Michael Faraday builds primitive electric generators. -
Charles Wheaton & William Cooke
Charles Wheatstone and william Cooke, in England,Samuel Morse, and in the United States develope the electrict elegraph.
(a for runner of a telephone) -
Hermon Hollerith
Chief special agent to the census bureau instructor in mechanical engineering at massachussets institute of technology
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William S. Burroughs
Was a bank clerk, and he was troubled by the long hours he spent pouring over bank legers in search of errors
(calculator and printer) -
Wilbur and Orville Wright
Brother Wilbur and Orville Wright built the first engine-powered airplane. -
Peter Goldmark
Peter Goldmark builds the first color television. -
Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi builds the first nuclear chain reactor at theUniversty of Chicago. -
J. Presper Eckert & John William Mauchly
First computer was built under classified condition, Welded to support te US military ambitions. -
Stanford Ovshinksy
Stanford Ovinshinksy develops various technologies that make renewable energy more practical, solar cells and improved rechargeable batteries. -
Drs. John Bardeen &Walter Brattain
Well respected in the field of theoratcical physics, created the trnsistor 14 years after the innitial meeting in princetown.
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Apple
Apple releases it's touchscreen tablet computer, the iPad.
