Timeline about american and british inventions

1747

electricity was created

En 1747 Benjamin Franklin inició sus experimentos sobre la electricidad. Estaba convencido de que las tormentas eran fenómenos eléctricos y propuso un método temerario para demostrarlo.

1829

The first train was created

The first railway that ran in the world was from Stockton to Darlington (Great Britain) in 1825 and the first steam locomotives that ran on our lines were British.

1836

the telegraph was created

The first electrical equipment for telegraphic transmission was invented by the American Samuel F. B. Morse in 1836, and the following year by the English physicist Charles Wheatstone in collaboration with the engineer Sir William F. Cooke.

1876

Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone in 1876, referred to as a device that transmitted sounds through a wire through electrical signals.

Creation of the phone

1880

Creation of the electric light bulb

In 1880 he patented what was the first incandescent light bulb with a commercial perspective: it had a carbon filament and a vacuum inside the glass receptacle, a combination that gave it about 40 hours of useful life.

1883

New York inventor Charles Fritts produced the first solar cells by coating selenium with a thin layer of gold, which is why some historians credit Fritts with the invention of solar cells. This cell achieved an energy conversion rate of 1-2%.

solar panel is created

1906

The first airplane was created

1945

The atomic bomb was created

The first atomic bomb in history was developed by Oppenheimer and a controlled detonation was carried out in the New Mexico desert on July 16, 1945.

1962

The main father of the web was the British physicist Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who, together with his working group at CERN, created an efficient method with which researchers could transmit information, content and data quickly and in an orderly manner.

the internet was created

1971

It was by working on sending messages to other computers on the ARPANET that Tomlinson managed to send the world's first email in October 1971.

email was created