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The Inventions That Transformed the World

Certain inventions have dramatically transformed the way we live, communicate, and understand the world. Some groundbreaking ...

Which Was the First Phone in the World?

Learn about the first phone in the world, invented by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876, the first telephone message, the ...

Arrochar resident co-authors a kids’ book on Meucci and the telephone

So much so, that Frances R. Curcio was moved to co-author a children’s book together with Myra Zarnowski, also a professor emerita at Queens College specializing in social studies and children’s ...

Texan salutes grandfather, Polish scientist who discovered key to high tech

In 1916, a Polish scientist discovered how to create a mono-crystal, which later became the basis for integrated circuits and semiconductors.
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How the world's first phone call paved way for satellite networks of future

The story of the first phone call and how it sparked the technologies that connect billions of people every day.
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Science history: First computer-to-computer message lays the foundation for the internet, but it crashes halfway through — Oct. 29, 1969

Messages transmitted between two computers located about 380 miles apart would form the basis of what would become the ...