1903 First successful airplane flight made by WRIGHT BROTHERS

 

1905 Theory of relativity, advanced by ALBERT EINSTEIN

 

1926 Television successfully demonstrated by JOHN BAIRD

 

1926 First liquid-fuel rocket successfully launched by ROBERT GODDARD

 

1928 First antibiotic drug, penicillin, discovered by SIR ALEXANDER FLEMING

 

1940 Use of blood plasma for transfusions introduced by DR. CHARLES DREW

 

1942 First nuclear chain reaction produced by ENRICO FERMI

 

1944 First automatic digital computer completed at HARVARD UNIVERSITY

 

1957 First ariticial earth satelliter, Sputnik I, launched by RUSSIA

 

1969 First lunar landing made by NEIL ARMSTRONG and EDWIN ALDRIN, JR.

 

1977 First manned flight of new space transportation system made by U.S. SPACE SHUTTLE ENTERPRISE

 

1977 Laser beam used to remove destroy body tissue of burn patients

 

1979 U.S. sureons use microsurgery to perform first successful reattatchment of major limb to body

 

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