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Friday, October 29, 2010

GREAT EVENTS OF THE 20th CENTURY.

1): Wings for a new world 1903The aero plane was invented by the Wright brothers. Wilbur and Orwille. The first plan is named’ Kitty Hawk’ and can be seen at the Smithsonian Museum in the USA.
Air Conditioninig (US)
2)The Movies come of Age: 1903: Thomas Alva Edison discovered the cinema. He introduced it as a Vitascope.The first silent movie was ‘The great train Robbery lasting a dew minutes. Now the Cinema industry has spread world wide and spawns a huge number of people.
3):A new key to the atom..1903: Madam Curie and her husband Pierre Curie discover Radium. Both of them got the Nobel prize, bur Marie Curie went on to win another Nobel Prize. Her daughter was also awarded the Nobel Prize.
THE PACE OF INVENTION..1900-1918
1900: Air conditioning…(US)
           Photoelectric Cell. ( Germany)
1901:  First Transatlantic Wireless Signal..(Brit.)
            Safety Razor patented in US by King GIllete.
            Electric Vacuum Cleaner US
1903:  First controlled heavier than Air flighjt…see above.
            Oxy acetaline welding.(Fra.)
             ECG.(Netherland)..by Einthovan
1904: Vacuum Tube (Diode)..For Radio.(Brit.)
1905: Aspirin marketed in Germany..Bayer and Co.
1906:  Audion Vacuum Tube for Radio(US)
            First Voice broadcast..(US)
             Sound on Film Process(Brit.)
             Photocopier.(US). Called Xerox frm Greek word meaning dry printing.
             

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