Events
the special services in
United States of America started
to use the internet.World War 1Most early methods of color printing
involved several prints, one for each color, although there were
various ways of printing two colors together if they were
separate. Liturgical and many other kinds of books
required rubrics,
normally printed in red; these were long
done by a separate print run with a red forme for
each page. Other methods
were used for
single leaf prints.
The chiaroscuro woodcut was a
European method developed in the 16th centuryAbraham Lincoln is nominated PresidentThe Berlin Wall
was a guarded concrete
barrier that physically and ideologically
divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Constructed by the German Democratic Republic, starting on 13 August 1961,
the Wall completely cut off
West Berlin from surrounding
East Germany and
from East Berlin until
government officials
opened it in November
1989. Its demolition officially began on 13 June 1990 and was completed in 1992Thomas Edison and the
“first” light bulb.
In 1878, Thomas Edison
began serious research
into developing a
practical incandescent
lamp and on October 14, 1878,
Edison filed his first
patent application
for "Improvement In Electric Lights".The Osborne 1, released
in 1981, used the Zilog Z80
and weighed 23.6 pounds
(10.7 kg). It had no battery,
a 5 in (13 cm) CRT screen,
and dual 5.25 in
(13.3 cm) single-density
floppy drives. In the same
year the first
laptop-sized portable
computer, the Epson HX-20, was announced.Periods
The first generation iPhone was released on June 29, 2007,
and there have been
multiple new
hardware iterations
with new iOS
releases since.Wilbur and Orville Wright were American inventors and pioneers of aviation.
In 1903 the Wright brothers achieved the first powered,
sustained and controlled airplane flight; they surpassed
their own milestone two years later when they
built and flew the first
fully practical airplane.The invention of the television was the work of many individuals in the late
19th century and early 20th century. Individuals and
corporations competed in various parts of the world to deliver a device that superseded previous technology.World War 2The IBM Simon was the first phone
with a touchscreen in 1992 —
it's also referred as the first
“smartphone,” though the
term was not yet coined. A few competitors came out in the early '90s,
but most mobile devices with touchscreens were more like PDAs.
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