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1900 inventions
At the beginning of this period, Europe was at its most dominant in all areas. Developments during this period were mainly confined to Europe and the USA. The USA was the most powerful region at this time. Some of the most remarkable 1900 inventions are:
- In 1901 the first radio receiver, successfully received a radio transmission.
- In 1903 The Wright brothers invent the first gas motored and manned airplane.
- In 1905 Albert Einstein published the Theory of Relativity and made famous the equation, E = mc2.
- In 1910 Thomas Edison demonstrated the first talking motion picture.
- In 1922 Sir Frederick Grant Banting invented Insulin.
- In 1923 Vladimir Kosma Zworykin invented the television or cathode-ray tube.
- In 1925 the mechanical television a precursor to the modern television, invented by John Logie Baird.
- In 1928 Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
- In 1939 Igor Sikorsky invents the first successful helicopter.
- In 1946 Percy Spencer invented the microwave oven.
- In 1926 Robert H. Goddard invents liquid-fueled rockets.
- In 1928 Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
- In 1932 Edwin Herbert Land invented Polaroid photography.
- In 1940 Dr William Reich invents the orgone accumulator. In the same year Peter Goldmark invents modern color television system. Karl Pabst invented the jeep.
- In 1941 Konrad Zuse's made the first computer controlled by software.
American inventors, Lyle David Goodloe and W.N. Sullivan, invented aerosol spray cans.
Enrico Fermi invents the neutronic reactor.
- In 1944 Willem Kolff invented the kidney dialysis machine.
- Hydrogen Bomb 1952 USA by Edward Teller's team.
- Transistor Radio 1953 USA from Texas Instruments.
- Microchip 1958 USA by Jack Kilby
- Laser 1960 USA by Theodore Maiman
- Heart Pacemaker 1960 USA by Wilson Greatbatch
- Genetic Engineering 1973 USA by S Cohen and H Boyer
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