Millennium History

Historical story

  • The steam engine, a revolutionary invention

    The Invention of the Steam Engine , is the story of a long process of discovery that began in antiquity. In 1679, the Frenchman Denis Papin designs a kind of Steam pressure cooker to study gas pressure. In 1712, Thomas Newcomen develops the first steam engine , which is used to pump water from the D

  • The telegraph, the invention that shrunk the world

    Among the earliest applications of electrical science was the invention of the telegraph usher in a new era, that of globalization. Its French Claude Chappe who developed the semaphoric telegraph at the end of the 18th century. This message transmission system, first optical, will become electric a

  • Invention and History of Radio (1895)

    The Invention of Radio is the result of a collective work, which starts from the discovery of electromagnetic waves, from the invention of telegraphy wireless, and led to the first materials that could be used to communicate by radio waves. Italian physicist Guglielmo Marconi is considered the fathe

  • Invention and history of television

    The Invention of Television is the culmination of a long journey of discoveries and inventions made from the end of the 19th century. January 26, 1926 sees the first public broadcast of television images by Scotsman John Logie Baird . Confidential and for a long time in black and white, the televisi

  • Invention of the telephone (Graham Bell,1876)

    February 14, 1876, the American Graham Bell files the patent for the telephone invention . Considered an improvement on the telegraph that had become talking, this invention marked the beginning of a new era, that of globalization. Distances are abolished, and time becomes universal. The principle o

  • Invention of the smart card (Roland Moreno, 1974)

    In 1974, Frenchman Roland Moreno invented the smart card , a plastic card with integrated circuits that will take off with the development of telephone cards and credit cards. The smart card then finds many other applications:the SIM card used in mobile phones, the Vitale card, the Moneo card, build

  • The first computer (ENIAC, 1946)

    The invention of the first computer is the realization of mans desire to develop a universal computer, an idea born in Great Britain in the 20th century thanks to Charles Babbage and further perfected by Alan Mathison Turing in 1936. It was the improvement of many techniques, particularly in the fie

  • Invention and history of the calendar

    The calendar , as a system for measuring time, is a very old invention. The Sumerian scribes were the first to invent a lunar-type calendar comprising 12 months of 29 or 30 days, each of these months beginning on the evening of the appearance in the sky of the new lunar crescent. For a people on the

  • Invention of writing (4th millennium BC)

    It was around 3400 BC that the Sumerians invented the first writing system called cuneiform . She waso bheld by the imprint of reeds on wet clay tablets and used to draw up inventories of goods and record commercial transactions. It took several hundred years to evolve into a more complex system and

  • Invention of pasteurization (1865)

    Pasteurization is a process attributed to Louis Pasteur who used it in 1865 to preserve wine by destroying its germs. This process, which allows preservation without changing the composition, flavor or nutritional value of the liquid, was actually developed in 1795 by Nicolas Appert who already appl

  • Invention of MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)

    Magnetic Resonance Imaging, MRI , is based on a phenomenon observed in 1938 by a certain Isidor Isaac Rabi on molecular beams. It allows the exploration of the organs of the human body without requiring an operation thanks to the detection of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance signals. (NMR) emitted by tiss

  • Invention of the Escalator (1892)

    The escalator , also called escalator, mobile staircase or Escalator , was first put into service in 1898, at the Crystal Palace, but its patent was filed by the American Jesse W. Reno March 15, 1892. At the Crystal Palace in 1898, it is possible to take a ride on the escalator for just a penny. The

  • The invention of the plow (300 BC)

    The plow is the capital invention that made agricultural production take off. In the Neolithic era the plow appears, which splits the soils of Palestine, but without turning over the earth. Pulled by two oxen, this wooden tool replaced the digging stick and spread between 7000 and 5000 BC throughout

  • The invention of traffic lights (1914)

    Even though road signs are as old as the roads (the Romans had already erected bollards out of stone columns along these in order to indicate the distances to Rome), the installation of a real signalling system does not begin until the end of the 19th century. Almost a century after the invention of

  • Invention of the tire (1887):history of the tire

    Theinvention of the tire dates from the 19th century:in 1830, the Frenchman Charles Dietz was the first to dress the wheels of certain vehicles with a rubber strip, placed between the wheel and the metal rim. The Briton John Boyd Dunlop, to dampen the vibrations transmitted by the wheels of his sons

  • Invention of the tramway (1832)

    The tramway , a collective transport vehicle with electric traction running on rails, is an American invention. It was New Yorker John Stephenson who, in 1832, built the first horse-drawn line between Manhattan and Harlem. After having conquered many cities whose topography was suitable for its deve

  • Richard Trevithick and the invention of the first train

    We can consider Richard Trevithick as the inventor of the train when itsfirst steam locomotive appeared in Cornwall, in the south of England, in 1804. From 1840, the railroad knew a dazzling development in the countries which had coal, or which could easily import it, like Europe and the United Stat

  • First bicycle and invention of the bicycle

    The Invention of the Bicycle (Bicycle) could go back to Leonardo da Vinci, author of a plan for a two-wheeled machine, ancestor of the bicycle, or to the mythical Count Mede de Sivrac supposed inventor of the celerifer in 1790. But it really began in 1817:the German baron Karl Drais von Sauerbronn p

  • First car - Invention and history of the automobile

    The Invention of the Automobile and the development of the first car have revolutionized the field of transport. From the first experiments in individual locomotion to autonomous and connected electric cars, the automobile is constantly reinventing itself. This innovation had universal economic and

  • Invention of the wheel (Sumer, around -3500)

    Around 3500 BC, the sumerians used logs to move heavy stones. They then had the idea of ​​making a hole in the center of a round shape and placing an axle there:this was the invention of the wheel , on which our whole civilization will be built. The wheels were initially solid structures but they gr

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