The helicopter is the only aircraft that can move forward, backward, side-to-side and hover. The VS-300 was the world’s first practical helicopter that took flight at Stratford, Connecticut, on September 14, 1939. The first helicopter was designed by Igor Sikorsky and built by the Vought-Sikorsky Aircraft Division of the United Aircraft Corporation. It took 29 […]
Karl Benz invented the world’s first practical internal-combustion engine automobile (car) in Germany. Karl Benz built three forms of his Motor Car in private by 1888. He became the first person to drive a car over a long distance. Model T was the missing link between cars and horse-drawn buggies. Later, Karl Benz patented the
The process of the Invention of the refrigerator started in the 18th century. In 1748, William Cullen of the University of Glasgow developed a process for creating an artificial cooling medium. An American inventor Oliver Evans designed the first refrigerator in 1804. In 1843, Jacob Perkins built the first refrigeration machine in Great Britain. In
The V-2 rocket was the first rocket launched into space. It was launched from Peenemünde, an island off Germany’s Baltic coast on 3 October, 1942. It became the first man-made object to travel into space by crossing the Kármán line with the vertical launch of MW 18014 on 20 June 1944. The first rocket which
he first video game was invented in 1967 by Ralph H Baer at Loral Electronics in Bronx, New York. He created the first prototype of the Magnavox Odyssey, the world’s first video game console. Ralph H Baer is often known as the ‘Father of Video Games’. He was the first person to create a system
In 1938, Chester Carlson, an American physicist and inventor, invented a dry printing process called ‘electro photography’. It is commonly called a ‘Xerox’. In 1953, the first high-speed printer was developed by Remington-Rand for use on the Univac computer. In 1969, the original laser printer, called EARS, was developed at the Xerox Palo Alto Research
John Logie Baird invented television. He experimented in an attic room in London for years until he succeeded in changing an old, moving, black-and-white image into a coloured one on a screen in 1925. He called it ‘The Televisor’. By 1930, Baird developed a system to broadcast simultaneous sound with the images. By 1940, he
The telescope was invented in 1609, by a scientist named Galileo Galilei in Italy. He made a small homemade telescope to gaze at the stars. The first telescopes were refracting telescopes. This means that one looks through the telescope from one lens to the other through to the image. Later, a well-known telescope was made
The Internet began life in 1969, when scientists working for the US Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA, now known as DARPA) connected computer networks at the University of California and the Stanford Research Institute. It was then known as ARPANET. By 1973, there were 40 individual networks connected to ARPANET. The first connection across the
The first mobile phone was invented in 1973 by an American engineer, Martin ‘Marty’ Cooper in Schaumburg, Illinois. He was former Motorola inventor in midtown Manhattan and he placed a call to the headquarters of Bell Labs in New Jersey. The first mobile phone went on sale in the United States at a price of
Charles Babbage invented all the parts, in 1833, that are now used for a modern computer. It was only 120 years later that the first modern computers were invented. Konrad Zuse was the inventor of the first computer in the world. Zuse developed the first computer in his parent’s living room in Germany, in 1936.
In 1954, George Devol invented the first Robot called the Unimate. In 1956, Devol and his partner Joseph Engelberger formed the world’s first robot company. Robots were introduced into the General Motors automobile plant in New Jersey, in 1960s. Today robots are a part of many aspects of industry, medicine, science, space exploration, construction, food
The Airplane was first flown in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in 1903. On 17 December 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright made four brief flights at Kitty Hawk with their first powered aircraft. The Wright brothers had invented the world’s first successful airplane. Their airplane flew 36 metres in only 12 seconds. The brothers’ breakthrough was
NASA stands for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. It is located in Washington DC. It is a government agency that was created by Congress in 1958. NASA’s mission is to explore space. The different spacecraft are sent out to explore other planets and gather information. NASA has also been involved in building a space
Thomas Alva Edison was a famous American inventor who ran his first test of an Electric Bulb in Menlo Park, in 1879. He also started the Edison Electric Light Company. He made the light bulb practical and inexpensive through different means. Then, he began to manufacture and market it for widespread use. Edison later invented