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Lionel Lukin was a British carriage builder and inventor of the lifeboat in 1785.

Henry Greathead, the first purpose-built, operational lifeboat, named Original, in 1790

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• John Logie Baird, a Scottish engineer, is credited with inventing the first working television system.
• He successfully demonstrated the mechanical television on 26 January 1926 in London.

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• Albert Einstein received the Nobel Prize for his discovery of the Law of the photoelectric effect
• The 1921 prize was actually awarded in 1922.

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The Nobel Prize for the discovery of the electron was awarded to J. J. Thomson in 1906.

He received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his investigations into the conduction of electricity in gases, which led to the discovery of the electron in 1897.

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The basic structure of a computer was developed by John von Neumann in 1945. 

It is known as the von Neumann architecture or von Neumann model,

He was the Hungarian-American mathematician and physicist 

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Karl Benz created the first gasoline-powered car

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John McCarthy is called the father of artificial intelligence. 

He was an American computer scientist

He coined the term "artificial intelligence" in 1955

Organized the 1956 Dartmouth Conference, which is considered the birth of AI as a field of study. 

Received the Nobel Prize of Computing in 1971

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Manufacturer: Foxconn.

Developer: Apple Inc..

Release Date: June 29, 2007.

Key Design: Features a 3.5-inch screen and was developed under the codename "Project Purple". 

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Ray Tomlinson, an American programmer, invented email 

When: 1971.

Where: Working for Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN) on the ARPANET.