World's First Airplane

A brief history of flight: Around 400 B.C. the first kites were created. In the 1480's Leonardo da Vinci created many drawing illustrating various aircraft, some of which have been proven to work and his helicopters are based on his Ornithopter flying machine. In 1783 Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier make the first hot air ballon flight. In the early to mid 1800's George Cayley designed numerous glider, some of which were flown successfully. In 1891 Otto Lilienthal designed a glider capable of carrying humans and had over 2,500 successful flights before losing his life in a crash. The above is a very brief history as a lead up to the world's...

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World's First Cloned Mammal

Dolly (5 July 1996 – 14 February 2003) was a female domestic sheep, and the first mammal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell, using the process of nuclear transfer. She was cloned by Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell and colleagues at the Roslin Institute near Edinburgh inScotland. She was born on 5 July 1996 and she lived until the age of six.] She has been called "the world's most famous sheep" by sources including BBC News and Scientific American. The cell used as the donor for the cloning of Dolly was taken from a mammary gland, and the production of a healthy clone therefore proved that a cell taken from a specific part of the body could recreate...

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World's First Printed Book

Diamond Sutra Ever wondered when was the world's first book printed ? There are a number of contenders for the honor of bearing the title of "first printed book in the world." The answer to this question is actually quite tricky, because it depends on what one means by "printing," and historical evidence strongly suggests that the identity of the first book in print will probably never be known, because it's unlikely that it survived to the present day. There is also a great deal of cultural bias in the answer to this question, as authorities commonly cite Western texts such as the Gutenberg Bible, when in fact the title most likely belongs...

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World's First Email

Email logo World’s first email message was send during the summer and autumn of  1971 between two computers. Mr. Tomlinson was the person, who created a computer program named SNDMSG, which sent a simple email message to a nearby computer through ARPANET. He was also the first person to put “@” in the email. He did that because this sign wasn’t used that much anywhere else. The first email address was “tomlinson@bbn-tenexa.” BBN was the name of Mr. Tomlinson’s employer and “tenexa” was the name of the operating system that was used. What exactly was the first email message is lost. The picture below actually shows how exactly the first...

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World's First Bluetooth Device

Bluetooth logo Many people think Sir Nicolas invented Bluetooth in the late 1990's.  (Well, this is what most of the people think, but I am not sure about it !!) Bluetooth is a short distance data transfer protocol which utilises a short-range radio link to exchange information, enabling effortless wireless connectivity between mobile phones, mobile PCs, handheld computers and other peripherals. It aims to replace the IrDA spec of InfraRed in mobile and computing devices. Bluetooth is managed by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group, which has more than 14,000 member companies in the areas of telecommunication, computing,...

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