7/20/69 0:00 The first manned lunar mission by the 3 man crew of the Apollo 11. Edwin “Buzz” E. Aldrin,Neil A. Armstrong and Michael Collins. Neil Armstrong became the first human to step on the[…]
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Category: Inventions
The telegraph
1889-12-01 00:00:00 Samuel Morse developed the telegraph between the 1830-40’s. The telegraph worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations 223001
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Johanne Gutenberg creates moveable type
1453-12-01 00:00:00 Moveable type makes it economical to print many kinds of documents. 196000
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Invention of The Compass
1040-12-01 00:00:00 There are allusions in the manuscript Wu Ching Tsung Yao, written in 1040, to “an iron fish” suspended in water that pointed to the south. 179001
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Chinese printing press
0868-12-01 00:00:00 Nearly 600 years before Gutenberg, Chinese monks were setting ink to paper using a method known as block printing, in which wooden blocks are coated with ink and pressed to sheets of paper.[…]
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Invention of Gunpowder
0850-12-01 00:00:00 Chinese scientists had been playing with saltpeter — a common name for the powerful oxidizing agent potassium nitrate — in medical compounds for centuries when one industrious individual thought to mix it with[…]
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Hindu Arabic Numerals
0825-12-01 00:00:00 Decimal place-value notation from India appears in Persian mathematician al-Khwarizmi’s book on mathematical algorithms. 178000
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