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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

Many people were involved in the invention of radio, but the first practical and usable radio transmitter and receiver was created by Guglielmo Marconi in the 1890s, in Italy. Marconi successfully sent the first radio message across the Atlantic Ocean in December 1901 from England to Newfoundland but his radio did not receive voice or

The term ‘Silicon Valley’ refers to the Santa Clara Valley in California. It is considered to be centred around the city of San Jose in Santa Clara County. First called ‘Silicon Valley’ in 1971 by a local newsletter writer, Donald C Hoefler, the ‘Valley’ became the centre of newly developing technologies. Silicon Valley is famous

Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was the first human to journey into outer space. He was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. Yuri Gagarin was the first human to travel into space, and the first to orbit the Earth. He was awarded many medals and titles, including ‘Hero of the Soviet Union’, the nation’s highest honour. The total

The first E-mail was sent by computer engineer Ray Tomlinson to himself in 1971. The E-mail was sent from one computer to another computer in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It travelled via ARPANET, a network of computers that was the precursor to the Internet. His first message read ‘testing 123’. The first E-mail from space was sent

SMS or Short Messaging Service is a type of communication used in mobile phones. SMSs are commonly called ‘text messages’. With SMS, someone can send text to another person. The text message was born in the UK, in 1992. The first SMS was sent by a 22-year-old test engineer, Neil Papworth of Sema Group (Mavenir

The Hubble Space Telescope is a large telescope in space. NASA launched Hubble Space Telescope in 1990. Hubble is as long as a large school bus. It weighs as much as two adult elephants. Hubble travels around the Earth at about 5 miles per second. It takes the pictures of planets, stars and galaxies. Hubble

The Smallest Moons circle Planet Mars. Asaph Hall discovered them in 1877. They were named Phobos and Deimos. Both moons are blacker than coal. Phobos is 27 Kilometres across at its widest point and has a large impact crater on one side. It flies around Mars three times in one Martian day. Deimos is even

The International Space Station (ISS) is a space station, or a big satellite that people can live in for a long time. The station is a connected project among several countries: the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan and Canada. The Space Station is the largest manned object ever sent into space. It is a research

Rigel Star is the brightest star in the constellation of Orion. It is 800 light years from the Earth. Rigel is actually a three-star system consisting of the blue supergiant Rigel A and two distant, and dimmer stars. Rigel Star is 40,000 times brighter than the Sun. Rigel Star is only around 8 million years