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History of the telephone Philipp Reis, Graham Bell and the telephone operator

History of the telephone

Launch of the Telstar news satellite On July 10, 1962, the first civilian U.S. news and television satellite, Telstar, was launched into space from Cape Canaveral. The first test images reached the receiving stations in Brittany and Cornwall as early as July 11. Then, on July 23, millions of people in America and Europe were able to watch the first direct-to-home television broadcasts between the two continents via the Telstar satellite.

Launch of the Telstar news satellite

A short history of the lawnmower The first lawnmower was patented in the English Kingdom on 31 August 1830. Based on the model of a fabric cutting machine, textile engineer Edwin Beard Budding had developed a cylinder mower that enabled the extensive parks to be worked evenly and quickly. Until then the famous English lawn had to be kept short with a scythe. Today, lawn mowers are an integral part of every garden. They are used to maintain decorative lawns at home as well as public green spaces and football stadiums.

A short history of the lawnmower

Inventions: Sony PlayStation

Inventions - The history of the bicycle As early as June 12, 1817, Karl von Drais, a forestry official from Baden, was on the move for the first time with the two-wheeled vehicle he invented, later called a draisine. The wooden running wheel is the "forefather" of today's bicycles. But until the fashionable bicycle was established, the inventiveness of other constructors drove true "blossoms"... Click and have a look! By the way, June 3 is World Bicycle Day.

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Inventions - The history of the bicycle

Inventions - synthetic fiber nylon On February 16, 1937, the U.S. chemical company DuPont filed a patent application for the new plastic developed in its laboratories by Wallace Hume Carothers. Nylon was first used for toothbrushes and played an important role in the manufacture of parachutes as a substitute for silk during World War II. The triumph of the nylon stocking as a fashion item began on May 15, 1940, with the official start of sales in selected stores in the USA. Today, nylon is also used to make ropes or strings for musical instruments, among other things.

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Inventions - synthetic fiber nylon

Inventions - The Internet From the Arpanet to the Internet of Things. - On October 29, 1969, two university computers were connected for the first time in the USA via a 50-kilobit data line. The resulting computer network, Arpanet, is considered the forerunner of the Internet, which was to fundamentally change the world. Twenty years later, the British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee developed the World Wide Web (WWW) at the European Nuclear Research Center CERN near Geneva, a service for the uniform exchange of information on the Internet. On August 6, 1991, he makes the world's first Web page public on the Internet. Today, almost four billion people are online, more than half the world's population.

Inventions - The Internet

Inventions - Steam engine patent for James Watt James Watt did not invent the steam engine. But the British engineer and inventor (Jan. 19, 1736 - Aug. 25, 1819) was able to further develop and decisively improve the atmospheric steam engine invented by Thomas Newcomens by introducing the condenser separated from the cylinder. His design was patented on 05.01.1769.

Inventions - Steam engine patent for James Watt