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Science and Technology Joseph and Etienne
Montigolfier, inventers of the hot air balloon, first believed that their balloon didn't
rise due to hot air but an invisible gas given off by fire. They named it Montigolfier
Gas. The early personal
computer, the Sinclair ZX80, had 1 kilobyte of internal memory. Joseph Swan invented
a light bulb in 1879, one year before Thomas Edison. But Swan didn't patent his idea and
was accused of copying by Edison ( who did patent the idea and is therefore recognised as
the inventor ) until it was shown both bulbs were produced in different processes. They
then formed a joint company using the best of both technologies. The bicycle was
first introduced to British roads in 1888, but the rider had to ring a bell continuously
to warn others of their approach. The Dotmatrix
printer was developed for the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games by the Japanese company Seiko. The fluorescent tube
uses 20% of the power to produce an equal amount of light as a tungsten filament bulb. |
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