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Harley Venable
Technology Through The Years
The Greeks invented a system of writing that ran from left to right.
1775 BC: The Phonetic Alphabet
Professor Alessandro Volta, whose voltaic cells stacked in a Voltaic pile and invented the first
battery.
1800: The Battery
Richard Trevithick invents a patent for the steam locomotive in 1802.
1802: Steam Locomotive
William Talbot invented it from the inspiration of his inability to draw. He
invented the negative/positive process in 1826.
1826: The Camera
Scottish clockmaker Alexander Bain in 1843, which comprised a pen attached to a
pendulum kept in motion by electromagnetic impulses, is remarkably similar in principle to
the modern machine.
Fax machine: 1843
Alfred Nobel invented the dynamite in 1867. A small time before it was finished, his younger brother died in an attempt to
stabilize the dynamite.
1867: Dynamite
Joseph Gidden, a 60-year-old New Hampshire rancher was the first to invent a method for mass manufacturing of barbed wire and he made a fortune as miles of his wire criss-
crossed American farms.
1873: Barbed Wire
Felix Hoffman perfected the remedy on his arthritic father, marketing it under the trade
name Aspirin.
1899: Aspirin
Scotsman John Logie Baird first demonstrated TV to the public in 1925.
1924: Television
Pictures are first transmitted over telephone lines.
1924
Toastmaster popped into general stores, but it took another 18 years for the wedding present favorite to land in the UK, where Morphy-Richards introduced the first model in 1948.
1926: The Pop-up Toaster