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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

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