The steam engine came to light

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The Scottish inventor wrote that to a friend a few years before patenting something that would change the world forever.
In 1781, the steam engine came to light.
Actually, the first engine of James Watt had only 10 horsepower and more than ten years the steam finally pushed the big locomotives (with a thousands of times greater power).
How did it work?
The steam was heated by burning wood and it increased its pressure. This pressure was used to push the locomotives with a mechanical system.
Even today we use a lot of steam. Indeed, the nuclear power plants use this fluid to move electric turbines, with the difference that the steam is heated by nuclear reactions.

"One giant leap for... Google"

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Google never ceases to make the history of technology. Yesterday, at 10.40 am the spacecraft of the Cygnus  Obrital of Sciences Corporation took off to bring his precious load into space to reach the International Space Station (ISS). 
The spacecraft carries a prototype of intelligent robot that belongs to the project SPHERES. It is a 8-inch-diameter miniaturized satellite with a lot of functions, able to operate even inside the International Space Station. 
NASA had already tested this technology, but this time there is collaboration with Google because the heart of the new mini-satellite will be a smartphone based on Google's Project Tango: an ultrapowered version of last generation's Android smartphone. Equipped with a special 3D sensor and different cameras, for now it will be used to build a three-dimensional map of the interior of the ISS.

When failures occur... even for the NASA!

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The NASA Mars Climate Orbiter burned up in the Martian atmosphere.

The spacecraft ended its journey at about 140 km altitude above the surface of Mars instead of entering the orbit of the planet is about 57 km. The Orbiter had been launched in 1998. 

No money. One apple.

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These few words can sum up the story of the Apple Computers' birth. 

Almost all of us know that it was born in a garage but a story becomes truly unforgettable when we can focus on its fine details. 

Wozniak (who was a hacker) had no money and could only draw his ideas on paper, without being able to put them into practice. 

The CD-Rom changes the way to preserve knowledge

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In the early Eighties, the floppy disk stored a maximum amount of information of 2 megabytes, a memory today not even enough to save a song in mp3 format. 

The first mobile phone call

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On 3 April 1973, the director of Research Development at Motorola, Martin Cooper, made ​​the first phone call in history with a mobile phone.
But thas was just an experiment because only 10 years after the phone call of Cooper, the Motorola decided to produce a mobile phone with the cost of 4000 dollars! 

The Internet revolution - Google's coming

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On 15 September 1997, two students of Harvard, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, founded the most popular search engine in the world: Google. 

Their aim was to categorize the websites' pages through the links between them with mathematical methods by creating a better search engine than those existing at that time.

The first television

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The picture shows one of the first TVs that entered on the market in the second half of the 30s. The story of the first TV is anything but simple.

The first flight

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During the nineteenth century there were many attempts to build a machine capable of flying and even if someone was able to get a partial success, the first flight by a heavier-than-air and with a man on board was that of December 17, 1903 thanks to the Flyer, an aircraft built by the Wright brothers.

The first personal computer

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In the picture you can see the first personal computer in history: the Apple I.
Its appearance is certainly very different from what we would expect because it was basically a motherboard with no fixture such as the keyboard or the screen.