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WESTINGHOUSE INVENTED AIR BRAKES

     American George Westinghouse (1846 to 1914) invented air brakes in the year 1868 A.D.
(George's idea using alternating current from electricity beat out the competition's idea of direct current. George beat out Thomas Alva Edison.)

GEORGE LEMAITRE DEVELOPED 'BIG BANG' THEORY:

Monsignor George Lemaitre (1894- 1996 AD), a Belgian physicist and Catholic priest, originated the Big Bang Theory (a starting point of the entire universe or as George called it,"day without yesterday". he expounded a concept of an ever-expanding universe, an idea with which Albert Einstein initially disagreed).

• Lemaitre never intended to explain what was present before this initial start of the universe.
• The term 'big bang idea' originally was broadcast on a BBC radio in 1949 and was not a name or term issued by Lemaitre.
• Lemaitre called that first initial point of all existence where observation that everything started," primeval atom". It stems from the observation that everything in the universe is expanding and began from a common point.

IN 1945 AD, WORLD WAR II KILLED 70 MILLION PEOPLE:

   World War II ended with the Japanese surrender on September 2, 1945. 50 to 70 million people worldwide were killed, the majority being civilians.

APPLE BEGAN TO SELL MUSIC ON THE INTERNET

  Since year 2003, Apple began selling musics; sells 20 million tracks every seven months.

GUNPOWDER DEVELOPER WERE THE CHINESE

     It is thought that the development work by Chinese started during 900 AD which led to their ability to develop and make hollow cannonball that contained and controlled gunpowder by the 14th century , five hundred  years of explosive and sadly, lethal experimental tests.

( in 1280 AD, a bomb storage facility in China caught fire, killed over 100 guards instantly. This accident documented the premature efforts at controlling the dangerous effects of this discovery. Through trial and disastrous error, the Chinese determined the exact level of nitrates that were stable enough for safe handling gunpowder.)

Harvard College Founded

In 1636 AD, Harvard  College (University) founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts 1,6 years after the pilgrims landed. The new institution was named after John Harvard, Puritan minister of Massachusetts.





In the year 1998 AD, NAPSTER WAS THE FIRST TO LAUNCH THE FILE SHARING SERVICE:
            Napster launches peer -to- peer service enabling computers to share files directly with each other. The original service was shut down by court order. It currently operates as pay service.

FIRST 'TALKING' PICTURE ISSUED:

In the year 1927 AD, the first 'Talking' picture was issued.

The first motion featuring recorded audio played alongside the running field, The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson was made and released.

( Most of "The Jazz Singer" film does not have recorded sound but Jolson is featured singing and speaking twice in the film on an audio recording, a very small portion of the film. the movie was still very successful and set a record of $2.6 M in the box office receipts, $1 M more than the highest previous record set by its studio, Warner Brothers.)

4 MILLION SLAVES IN THE U.S.:

 By the year 1860, there were 3.9 million slaves in the U.S..., up from 700,000 estimated in 1790, 70 years earlier.
(97% of the slaves in the U.S. in 1860 were in the South; there were almost 115,000 slaves counted in the month.)




1400 BC, Acacia wood, material (from the Tree of Life) used to make the Ark of Covenant in the Old Testament of the Bible.




Around 3.460 Billion years ago, The First Life was observed. Evidence of bacteria (cynobacteria) found in Archaen rocks of Western Australia have been dated to this period. There are also specimens that have been found in South Africa and Greenland.



During 90 BC, Jewish Bible was assembled: Jewish Rabbis settled on the official list of books and the structure of the current Bible Council of Jamnia.




 The first Roman Emperor: During 63 BC, Augustus first Roman emperor, born (63 BC to 14 A.D.). reigned over a growing, mostly peaceful Roman Empire. Augustus was the great nephew of the murdered Julius Caesar (100 to 44 BC). Upon Augustus' death, he was thought to be a God and in his honor, the Roman month, Sextilis, was changed to his name Augustus (August).
(Augustus' sister Octavia was the wife of Marcus Antony a top Roman lieutenant. Antony dropped Octavia for Egypt's Queen Cleopatra, bore children with the Nile Queen, attempted to give parts of the Roman empire to those children and was persuaded by the Augustus ultimately ending with suicides of both Antony and Cleopatra. These occurred  after Cleopatra had had a som, Caesarion, previously with Julius Caesar.)

Jewish  scripture was in Greek, not Hebrew:

                                                                    During Jesus'  youth, the standard of Scripture for Jews was written in  Greek,not Hebrew.( estimated time period 10 AD)

                             FIRST COMPUTER PROGRAM RECORDED ON TAPE.

        Konrad Zuse , german Engineer and computer pioneer in the year 1936 built the first freely programmable computer which was based on a binary floating- point number and switching system. 

• known as Z3, the program was held on punched tape,
• Zuse went on to make 251 computers with his company, all starting with the letter "Z". that company was sold to Siemens in 1967.
• in 2009, the fastest computer was thought to be IBM's Linux-powered Roadrunner surpassing one petaflop per second (1.026 quadrillion calculations per second.)