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| 1884 |
| | | US-born British inventor Hiram Maxim demonstrates the first prototype of his machine gun, using the recoil force to eject the spent cartridge and insert a new one | |
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| 1887 |
| | | A German physiologist, Adolf Fick, grinds a pair of lenses to fit snugly in contact with a patient's eyeballs | |
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| 1891 |
| | | German aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal achieves the first of many guided flights in a glider, from a hill near Potsdam | |
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| 1893 |
| | | Frank Hornby patents in Liverpool his Meccano construction system for children | |
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| 1893 |
| | | George Westinghouse demonstrates the advantages of AC (Alternating Current) when he provides 100,000 lights for the Chicago World's Fair | |
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| 1895 |
| | | 21-year-old Guglielmo Marconi succeeds in transmitting a radio signal more than a mile at his home near Bologna | |
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| 1896 |
| | | Otto Lilienthal dies when a wing fractures on his glider and he crashes from a height of 17 metres | |
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| 1896 |
| | | 22-year-old Guglielmo Marconi takes out a patent in Britain for the invention of radio | |
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| 1899 |
| | | Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi succeeds in transmitting a wireless telegraph message across the English Channel | |
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| 1899 |
| | | Marconi equips two ships to send radio reports to New York on the progress of the yachts racing for the America's Cup | |
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