https://padlet.com/3675623/1v56oc6enijdcryv en-us 2022-10-07 12:12:25 UTC 2025-11-26 22:06:24 UTC hello@padlet.com 3675623 https://padlet.com/3675623/1v56oc6enijdcryv/wish/2330928279
The very first mobile phones were not really mobile phones at all. They were two-way radios that allowed people like taxi drivers and the emergency services to communicate. Instead of relying on base stations with separate cells, the first mobile phone networks involved one very powerful base station covering a much wider area. The automobile was first invented and perfected in Germany and France in the late 1800s, though Americans quickly came to dominate the automotive industry in the first half of the twentieth century. Henry Ford innovated mass-production techniques that became standard, and Ford, General Motors and Chrysler emerged as the “Big Three” auto companies by the 1920s.

]]> 2022-10-07 12:40:35 UTC https://padlet.com/3675623/1v56oc6enijdcryv/wish/2330928279 3675623 https://padlet.com/3675623/1v56oc6enijdcryv/wish/2330929520 The ideal characteristic of artificial intelligence is its ability to rationalize and take actions that have the best chance of achieving a specific goal. A subset of artificial intelligence is machine learning, which refers to the concept that computer programs can automatically learn from and adapt to new data without being assisted by humans.]]> 2022-10-07 12:41:32 UTC https://padlet.com/3675623/1v56oc6enijdcryv/wish/2330929520 3675623 https://padlet.com/3675623/1v56oc6enijdcryv/wish/2330930038 In 1961, once his partner George Devol was awarded US Patent No. 2,988,237 for his robotic invention, Engelberger established Unimation Inc., a Condec Corp. Located in Danbury, Connecticut, it was the first company of its kind. By 1966 Engelberger expanded Unimation’s distribution internationally.]]> 2022-10-07 12:41:55 UTC https://padlet.com/3675623/1v56oc6enijdcryv/wish/2330930038 3675623 https://padlet.com/3675623/1v56oc6enijdcryv/wish/2330931166 Early Bird was the very first commercial communications satellite placed in geostationary orbit. It was launched in April 1965, on a Delta D rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida. It was capable only of transmitting one TV channel, or some equivalent telephone conversations, but it was the first, the precursor.]]> 2022-10-07 12:42:42 UTC https://padlet.com/3675623/1v56oc6enijdcryv/wish/2330931166 3675623 https://padlet.com/3675623/1v56oc6enijdcryv/wish/2330931715  Created in the late 1960s, Shakey was the first mobile robot with the ability to perceive and reason about its surroundings. Its developers were a group of engineers in Stanford Research Institute managed by Charles Rosen, and the project was funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.]]> 2022-10-07 12:43:06 UTC https://padlet.com/3675623/1v56oc6enijdcryv/wish/2330931715 3675623 https://padlet.com/3675623/1v56oc6enijdcryv/wish/2330932323  Morton Meyerson is credited with developing the innovative concept known as outsourcing in the 1980s, and creating the first offshore development centers in Latin America and India.]]> 2022-10-07 12:43:36 UTC https://padlet.com/3675623/1v56oc6enijdcryv/wish/2330932323 3675623 https://padlet.com/3675623/1v56oc6enijdcryv/wish/2330933235 Computers small and inexpensive enough to be purchased by individuals for use in their homes first became available in the 1970s, when large-scale combination made it possible to construct a sufficiently powerful microprocessor on a single semiconductor chip.]]> 2022-10-07 12:44:08 UTC https://padlet.com/3675623/1v56oc6enijdcryv/wish/2330933235 3675623 https://padlet.com/3675623/1v56oc6enijdcryv/wish/2330933765 By developing the use of nuclear magnetic resonance to create images of organs, joints and other tissues in the human body, Paul Lauterbur established magnetic resonance imaging as an important tool in modern medicine.]]> 2022-10-07 12:44:33 UTC https://padlet.com/3675623/1v56oc6enijdcryv/wish/2330933765 3675623 https://padlet.com/3675623/1v56oc6enijdcryv/wish/2330935246 Voyager 1 is the first spacecraft to travel beyond the solar system and reach interstellar space. The probe launched on Sept. 5, 1977 about two weeks after its twin Voyager 2 and as of August 2022 is approximately 14.6 billion miles away from our planet, making it Earth's farthest spacecraft. 

]]> 2022-10-07 12:45:34 UTC https://padlet.com/3675623/1v56oc6enijdcryv/wish/2330935246 3675623 https://padlet.com/3675623/1v56oc6enijdcryv/wish/2330936224 The Global Positioning System is a space-based radio navigation system consisting of a constellation of satellites broadcasting navigation signals and a network of ground stations and satellite control stations used for monitoring and control.]]> 2022-10-07 12:46:18 UTC https://padlet.com/3675623/1v56oc6enijdcryv/wish/2330936224 3675623 https://padlet.com/3675623/1v56oc6enijdcryv/wish/2330936872 Space shuttle Columbia was the first shuttle to reach space when it was launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Apr. 12, 1981. Columbia carried dozens of astronauts into space during the next two decades, reaching several milestones.]]> 2022-10-07 12:46:47 UTC https://padlet.com/3675623/1v56oc6enijdcryv/wish/2330936872 3675623 https://padlet.com/3675623/1v56oc6enijdcryv/wish/2330937296 The Internet was first invented for military purposes, and then expanded to the purpose of communication among scientists. The invention also came about in part by the increasing need for computers in the 1960s.]]> 2022-10-07 12:47:05 UTC https://padlet.com/3675623/1v56oc6enijdcryv/wish/2330937296 3675623 https://padlet.com/3675623/1v56oc6enijdcryv/wish/2330938093 Entrepreneurs Glen Jones and Bernand Luskin launched Jones International University, which became the first accredited and fully web-based university. Since the creation of these fully online programs and schools, distance learning has continued to grow in many different directions.]]> 2022-10-07 12:47:40 UTC https://padlet.com/3675623/1v56oc6enijdcryv/wish/2330938093 3675623 https://padlet.com/3675623/1v56oc6enijdcryv/wish/2330938585 First conceived in the 1940s and initially called the Large Space Telescope, the Hubble Space Telescope took decades of planning and research before it launched on April 24, 1990. Since launch, Hubble has overcome its troubled beginnings to perform innumerable science observations that have revolutionized humanity’s understanding of the universe. From determining the age of the universe to observing dramatic changes on celestial bodies in our own solar system, Hubble has become one of humanity’s greatest scientific instruments.]]> 2022-10-07 12:48:00 UTC https://padlet.com/3675623/1v56oc6enijdcryv/wish/2330938585 3675623 https://padlet.com/3675623/1v56oc6enijdcryv/wish/2330938919 The first smartphone, created by IBM, was invented in 1992 and released for purchase in 1994. It was called the Simon Personal Communicator. While not very compact and sleek, the device still featured several elements that became staples to every smartphone that followed. For example, the SPC was the first touchscreen phone. In addition, it had the ability to send and receive both emails and faxes. It also had a calendar, address book, and a native appointment scheduler. It even featured standard and predictive stylus input screen keyboards!

]]> 2022-10-07 12:48:16 UTC https://padlet.com/3675623/1v56oc6enijdcryv/wish/2330938919 3675623 https://padlet.com/3675623/1v56oc6enijdcryv/wish/2330939314 NASA's first-ever Mars rover, named Sojourner, touched down in Chryse Planitia on July 4, 1997, stopped its landing vehicle, Pathfinder. The pair of spacecraft signaled a revolution in Mars exploration technology that NASA's Curiosity and Perseverance rovers continue to this day, a quarter century later.]]> 2022-10-07 12:48:35 UTC https://padlet.com/3675623/1v56oc6enijdcryv/wish/2330939314 3675623 https://padlet.com/3675623/1v56oc6enijdcryv/wish/2330939938 Roomba is an autonomous vacuum and one of the most popular consumer robots in existence. It navigates around clutter and under furniture cleaning your floors, and returns to its charging dock when finished.]]> 2022-10-07 12:48:54 UTC https://padlet.com/3675623/1v56oc6enijdcryv/wish/2330939938