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Galileo used this to discover that Jupiter has its own moons.
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Blaise Pascal invented this implement for performing arithmetic automatically.
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The first commercial version of this was a water pump developed by Thomas Savery.
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The first untethered manned flight of this buoyant object was performed by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes.
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This was invented by the creator of Morse code and revolutionized information sending across long distances.
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Joseph Nicéphore Niépce is widely accepted as the inventor of this tool which allows one to preserve memories.
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This was the name of the first programmable mechanical computer, courtesy of Charles Babbage.
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First created by Moritz Jacobi, Jacobi's second version of this was powerful enough to drive a boat with 14 people across a wide river.
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Invented by French physicist Gaston Planté, this was the earliest type of rechargeable battery, with a large power-to-weight ratio that makes it attractive for use in motor vehicles.
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Using the telegraph line between Brantford and Paris, Ontario (a distance of eight miles), the inventor of this device made the "world's first long-distance call."
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Thomas Edison is widely credited for inventing this object, as well as making other breakthroughs in lighting technology, including [developing the first commercial power utility called Pearl Street Station in lower Manhattan and] inventing the first electric meter.
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This coal-fired power station, the first of its kind, generated electricity for street lamps in London.
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First invented by Karl Benz, Henry Ford innovated mass-production techniques which became standard for this product.
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American inventor Charles F. Brush built the first automatically operated one of this.
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Wilbur and Orville Wright made four brief flights at Kitty Hawk with this invention.
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John Logie Baird demonstrated the first color transmission of this machine using mechanical rotating disks to scan moving images into electronic impulses.
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Originally patented by Edwin Armstrong, this technology is now used for most music broadcasts since it is capable of higher fidelity compared to other broadcasting technologies.
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The first of its kind consisted of a block of germanium with two very closely spaced gold contacts held against it by a spring to create a point-contact diode.
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Bell Labs developed this technology which was capable of converting the sun's energy into power to run everyday electrical equipment.
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This satellite, the first to be launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit, orbited for three weeks before its batteries died.
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While Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first men to step on the moon, he flew the Command Module Columbia alone in lunar orbit.
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This space station was originally planned to launch on the 10th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's flight on Vostok 1, but technical problems delayed it by one week.
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Originally intended for military use, President Ronald Reagan opened this system to the public after a Korean passenger jet was shot down when it strayed from its intended route into Soviet prohibited airspace.
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This information system used Uniform Resource Locators to identify documents and other web resources accessible over the Internet.
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This IBM device, invented 15 years before the iPhone was released, was equipped with a touch screen and the ability to send and receive emails and faxes.
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This Japanese solar sail based spacecraft completed its planned mission to Venus in 29 weeks.
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The Google DeepMind Challenge Match featured this Go-playing computer program which beat 18-time world champion Lee Sedol in four out of five games.
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This computer, touted as the world's first-ever circuit-based quantum computer, can be accessed by clients through the cloud.
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