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Technology T hrough The Years

Technology T hrough The Years . Harley Venable. 1775 BC: The Phonetic Alphabet. The G reeks invented a system of writing that ran from left to right. 1800: The Battery. Professor Alessandro Volta, whose voltaic cells stacked in a Voltaic pile and invented the first battery.

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Technology T hrough The Years

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  1. Technology Through The Years Harley Venable

  2. 1775 BC: The Phonetic Alphabet • The Greeks invented a system of writing that ran from left to right.

  3. 1800: The Battery Professor Alessandro Volta, whose voltaic cells stacked in a Voltaic pile and invented the first battery.

  4. 1802: Steam Locomotive • Richard Trevithick invents a patent for the steam locomotive in 1802.

  5. 1826: The Camera • William Talbot invented it from the inspiration of his inability to draw. He invented the negative/positive process in 1826.

  6. Fax machine: 1843 • Scottish clockmaker Alexander Bain in 1843, which comprised a pen attached to a pendulum kept in motion by electromagnetic impulses, is remarkably similar in principle to the modern machine.

  7. 1867: Dynamite • Alfred Nobel invented the dynamite in 1867. A small time before it was finished, his younger brother died in an attempt to stabilize the dynamite.

  8. 1873: Barbed Wire • Joseph Gidden, a 60-year-old New Hampshire rancher was the first to invent a method for mass manufacturing of barbed wire and he made a fortune as miles of his wire criss-crossed American farms.

  9. 1899: Aspirin • Felix Hoffman perfected the remedy on his arthritic father, marketing it under the trade name Aspirin.

  10. 1924: Television Scotsman John Logie Baird first demonstrated TV to the public in 1925.

  11. 1924 • Pictures are first transmitted over telephone lines.

  12. 1926: The Pop-up Toaster • Toastmaster popped into general stores, but it took another 18 years for the wedding present favorite to land in the UK, where Morphy-Richards introduced the first model in 1948.

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