Malaga in Spain

1. Malaga in Spain Pablo Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain in 1881

2. Pearl Street Station was the first central power plant in the United States. • It began with one direct current generator, and it started generating electricity on September 4, 1882, serving an initial load of 400 lamps at 85 customers. a year before Thomas Edison built the world’s first power station in New York

3. and twenty-two years before the first ever plane flight

4. ‘The Flyer’ • The Wright Brothers gained the mechanical skills essential for their success by working for years in their shop with printing presses, bicycles, motors, and other machinery. Their work with bicycles in particular influenced their belief that an unstable vehicle like a flying machine could be controlled and balanced with practice • They spent a great deal of time observing birds in flight. They noticed that birds soared into the wind and that the air flowing over the curved surface of their wings created lift. Birds change the shape of their wings to turn and maneuver. They believed that they could use this technique to obtain roll control by warping, or changing the shape, of a portion of the wing of one of their gliders. by the Wright brothers in 1903 The Wright Brothers December 17, 1903

5. He moved to Paris at 19 years old, in time to see the World Fair, where the 1900s beckoned in advancements such as Electric lighting, escalators and ‘The Metro’

6. Picasso died in France in 1973, the year in which the first spacecraft reached Jupiter Pioneer 10 1973 Pioneer 10 Pioneer 10 was the first spacecraft to travel through the asteroid belt, on July 15, 1972, and to make direct observations of Jupiter, which it passed by on December 3, 1973

7. The first manned mission to land on the Moon ; July 20, 1969 and four years after the first men had landed on the moon.

8. World War 1 The Great War 1914 - 1918 He lived through both world wars; the First World War which lasted for four years and started when he was thirty-three,

9. and the Second World War which lasted six years and began twenty-five years after the First World War had begun. World War 2 1939 - 1945

10. The Spanish Civil War - 1936 to 1939 The Spanish Civil War often pitted family members, neighbours, and friends against each other. Apart from the combatants, many civilians were killed for their political or religious views by both sides, and after the war ended in 1939, the losing Republicans were persecuted by the victorious Nationalists. The war was cast by Republican sympathizers as a struggle between "tyranny and democracy", and by Nationalist supporters as between Communist & anarchist "red hordes" and "Christian civilization". Nationalists also claimed to be protecting the establishment and bringing security and direction to an ungoverned and lawless society An estimated total of more than 300,000 people lost their lives as a consequence of the war. Out of them probably more than 120,000 were civilians executed by either side. Three years before the Second World War started, Spain had fallen into a Civil War which lasted for three years and finished in 1939 when the fascist General Franco, who was helped by Hitler, finally beat the Communists which Picasso supported. Francisco Franco

11. In Science, Picasso lived through the first nuclear bomb which was dropped on Japan by the USA in 1945

12. DNA stands for DeoxyriboNucleic Acid. It is the genetic material of a cell. The chromosomes inside the nucleus (control centre) of the cell are made of DNA. Lots and lots of DNA. It is very fine and tightly coiled but there may be as much as a metre in a single cell. DNA is really a code. It is divided up into sections. These sections are genes, which carry all the instructions for making up our body. So there is a gene that tells the body to have brown hair and so on. Each gene is a code for a particular protein. Our bodies are made up of proteins. So the genes dictate how we are made and what our bodies look like. DNA molecules are shaped in a 'double helix'. They are two long strands coiled round each other. You inherit half your DNA from your mother and half from your father. In the autumn of 1951, James Watson and Francis Crick began unravelling the structure of DNA .. eight years before DNA was first mapped

13. Heart care made major strives in 1967. In that year the South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard performed the first heart transplant. The patient, Louis Washkansky, lived for 18 days but died from pneumonia due to his immune blocking drugs. Today, transplants are performed routinely. In the same year, American surgeon Rene Favalero conducted the first heart bypass operation. .. and twenty-two years before the first ever heart transplant.

14. Philo Farnsworth, 1928 The concept of electrically powered television images in motion was first suggested in 1878 as the telephonoscope, shortly after the invention of the telephone. Although television was first introduced to the general public at the 1939 World's Fair, the outbreak of World War II prevented it from being manufactured on a large scale until after the end of the war. The first TV image John Logie Baird, 1926 Baird built what was to become the world's first working television set by purchasing an old hatbox and a pair of scissors, some darning needles, a few bicycle light lenses, a used tea chest, and sealing wax and glue

15. The IBM stretch;1961Each of the six magnetic core memory units for the machine weighed one ton Two years after Picasso died, the first personal computer was sold which came thirty-eight years after the very first computer had been invented. March, 1974; the Scelbi had 1 KB of memory and cost £500 The first Universal Automatic Computer was delivered to the United States Census Bureau on March 31, 1951, it used magnetic tape and not punch cards It was made by the Remington Typewriter company and used their ‘QWERTY’ keyboard The 68000 Motorola Advanced Computer System on Silicon project, begun in 1976 This allowed a computer to run using 68KB of memory The 1977 Apple II