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A telegraph a device or system that allows the transmission of information by coded signal over distance. Samuel Morse sent the first message over the first long-distance telegraph line which stretched between Washington, D.C., and Baltimore.
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Karl Benz used a one-cylinder engine to power the first modern automobile, a three-wheeled car that he drove around the track. Designed for primarily for passenger transportation and commonly propelled by an internal combustion engine using a volatile fuel .
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Alexander Graham Bell made the first telephone call. The telephone was designed for the simultaneous transmission and reception of the human voice.
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American inventor Thomas Edison got a carbon-filament light bulb to burn for 13 hours. The light bulb is an artificial source of light for illumination.
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Transmission and detection of communication signals consisting of electromagnetic signals consisting of electromagnetic waves that ravel through the air in a straight line or by reflection from the ionosphere or from a communication satellite. Guglielmo Marconi sent a transmission of the Morse code across the Atlantic from Cornwall to Newfoundland excited the world.
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Orville Wright made the first airplane flight, of 120 feet, near Kitty Hawk, North California.
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Robert Goddard achieved the first test flight of a liquid fueled rocket from his aunt's farm in Auburn, Massachusetts.
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Philo T. Farnsworth created a transmission of an image.
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John Atanasoff designed a device for processing, storing and displaying information.
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Manhattan Project built the first atomic bomb.
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Walter Brattain, William Shockley and John Bardeen created an electric component that could control, amplify and generate current.
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A semiconductor chip, computers became both smaller and more powerful.
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Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn produced the TCP/IP which described how data can be broken down into smaller pieces called packets and how these packets can be transmitted to the right destination. Revolutionized mass communication, mass media, and commerce by allowing various computer network around the world to interconnect.
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Apple released a smartphone. Became popular because of its simple touch-sensitive multisensory interface.
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Ability of a digital computer or computer-controlled robot to perform tasks commonly associated with intelligent beings.
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Software program that all user to ask it questions using conversational, or natural language.