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.
1910
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
Marconi Reports Receiving a Transatlantic Radio Signal
December 12, 19011895
1895 · Technology
George Selden Receives a Patent for a Road Engine
November 5, 18951889
1889 · Technology
A Coin-Operated Phonograph Debuts in San Francisco
November 23, 18891886
1886 · Technology
Karl Benz files his motor-car patent
January 29, 18861885
1885 · Technology
Japan grants its first patent under the new system
August 14, 18851879
1879 · Technology
Edison Publicly Demonstrates Electric Lighting at Menlo Park
December 31, 18791878
1878 · Technology
Thomas Edison receives a phonograph patent
February 19, 18781876
1876 · Technology
Bell and Gray submit competing telephone paperwork
February 14, 18761873
1873 · Technology