Human Society

After the Chinese invented black powder during the 9th century. These inventions were later transmitted to the Middle East, Africa, and Europe. The direct ancestor of the firearm is the fire lance, the prototype of the gun.In the late 15th century the Ottoman empire used firearms as part of its regular infantry. The first successful rapid-fire firearm is the Gatling Gun, invented by Richard Gatling and fielded by the Union forces during the American Civil War in the 1860s.

Nicolas Appert submitted his invention to the French government and was announced the winner in January of 1810, some 15 years after he first began experimenting. That same year Appert published The Art of Preserving Animal and Vegetable Substances, the first cookbook of its kind on modern food preservation.

the first computer was the abacus or its descendant, the slide rule, invented by William Oughtred in 1622. But the first computer resembling today's modern machines was the Analytical Engine, a device conceived and designed by British mathematician Charles Babbage between 1833 and 1871.

Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone. Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876. And then in 1900, on December 23 on the outskirts of Washington, D.C., an inventor named Reginald Fessenden accomplished a remarkable feat: He made the first wireless telephone call.

the first really practical automobiles with petrol/gasoline-powered internal combustion engines were completed almost simultaneously by several German inventors working independently: Karl Benz built his first automobile in 1885 in Mannheim.

On December 17, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright made four brief flights at Kitty Hawk with their first powered aircraft. The Wright brothers had invented the first successful airplane. The Wrights used this stopwatch to time the Kitty Hawk flights.

Nathaniel Baldwin was the inventor of headphones and a supporter of the early Mormon fundamentalist movement.Headphones originated from the earpiece, and were the only way to listen to electrical audio signals before amplifiers were developed. The first truly successful set was developed in 1910 by Nathaniel Baldwin, who made them by hand in his kitchen and sold them to the United States Navy.

In the early 1930s, single sideband and frequency modulation were invented by amateur radio operators. By the end of the decade, they were established commercial modes. Radio was used to transmit pictures visible as television as early as the 1920s.

Canadian inventor Al Gross (1918–2000) invents the first telephone pager. He had already invented the walkie-talkie (in 1938) and Citizen's Band (CB) radio (in 1948). 1956: The Motorola electronics company invents the first portable paging device: the Handie-Talkie radio pager.

Holless Wilbur Allen, Jr. (July 12, 1909 – June 28, 1979) was the inventor of the compound bow. Inventor. H. W. Allen, Jr. revolutionized the archery industry worldwide with the invention and patent of the compound bow in the 1960s.