http://oldbungalow.blogspot.com/2012/12/when-did-people-start-driving-cars.html
http://www.npr.org/2011/01/26/4748778/timeline-americas-space-program
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Saturday, April 6, 2013
Technological advances
Technological Advances
It’s amazing how far the human race has come from the wheel, to things no one believed were possible in the past, such as the space shuttle, computers, and cars that can top 250 mph. "On May 5 1961 Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr became the first American in space. Aboard the freedom seven he flew above the Earth for 14.8 minutes and attains a speed of 5,100 mph." Today we don’t just have space shuttles America has many satellites and an actual space station, which is capable of staying in space permanently not just for a few minutes. The car started out as nothing more than a horse drawn carriage. People actually started driving cars in 1769. "However through research and trying and failing the fuel gas powered automobile engine was invented in 1805. But we didn’t stop there gas powered engines were soon created later in the year 1885, but through modern tweaking and improvements on engines." Instead of driving a measly 15 to 30 miles an hour, some extremely expensive modern cars can reach over 200 mph such as the Lamborghini aventador which top speed recorded is around 220.
Yet another major advancement in technology is the timeline of computers. First of all not just one person invented the computer. Many people contributed to its creation." The z1 computer was the first freely programmable computer, and was created by Konrad Zuse in 1936. The first consumer computer was created in 1974/1975." Before the computer was invented people used letters which would take weeks to get across the country. Now modern computers can send an email across the world in a matter of seconds.
These are just a few major technological advances out of an infinite amount made by mankind.
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