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.
1944
1944 · Technology
The Junkers Ju 287 prototype flies
August 16, 19441942
1942 · Technology
Lamarr and Antheil receive a frequency-hopping patent
August 11, 19421941
1941 · Technology
SS Patrick Henry: The First Liberty Ship
September 27, 19411940
1940 · Technology
George Stibitz operates a computer over a telephone connection
September 9, 19401936
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, 19351931
1931 · Technology
Thomas Edison Dies at Glenmont
October 18, 19311927
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