Technology and Invention Stories
Inventions, patents, machines and networks: when they were built, who built them and what came next, with sources you can check.
1951
1951 · Technology
The First Direct Dial Long Distance Call Crosses the United States
November 10, 19511936
1936 · Technology
The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Opens
November 12, 19361935
1935 · Technology
The Hawker Hurricane Prototype Makes Its First Flight
November 6, 1935
1935 · Technology
Roosevelt Dedicates Hoover Dam
September 30, 19351927
1927 · Technology
Philo Farnsworth demonstrates electronic image transmission
September 7, 1927
1913 · Technology
Breaking the Barrier: The Gamboa Dike Demolition of 1913
October 10, 1913
1910 · Technology
Eugene Ely Takes Off From USS Birmingham
November 14, 19101910
1910 · Technology
John Duigan flies an Australian-built biplane
July 16, 19101910
1910 · Technology
Aurel Vlaicu flies his first aircraft
June 17, 19101904
1904 · Technology
New York’s Subway Opens
October 27, 19041903
1903 · Technology
The Wright Brothers Make Their First Powered Flights
December 17, 19031901
1901 · Technology