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History of Apple Inc.
The history of Apple Inc., also known as History of Apple Computer, traces the company from its 1976 founding by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak to the iPhone era.
History of architecture
The history of architecture, also called architectural history, is the study of how buildings were designed and built across time, from Vitruvius to Gothic, Baroque, and modern styles.
History of artificial intelligence
The history of artificial intelligence records efforts to make machines perform intelligent tasks, from the 1956 Dartmouth workshop through deep learning and the large language model era.
History of aviation
The history of aviation covers the development of flying machines from the Wright brothers' first powered, controlled flight in 1903 through the jet age and mass air travel.
History of aviation in Bangladesh
The history of aviation in Bangladesh spans from 1941 wartime airfields near Dhaka to the founding of Biman Bangladesh Airlines in 1972 and later private airlines.
History of aviation in Canada
The history of aviation in Canada spans the 1909 Silver Dart flight at Baddeck, the bush-flying era, the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, and Air Canada's rise and privatization.
History of aviation in Japan
The history of aviation in Japan covers the post-1945 Allied ban, civil aviation's 1952 resumption, the JAL and ANA duopoly, the YS-11 airliner, and later deregulation.
History of aviation in the Soviet Union
The history of aviation in the Soviet Union covers state-run civil and military aviation from 1945 to 1991, when Aeroflot became the world's largest airline.
History of BMW
History of BMW covers the Munich company founded in 1916, from aircraft engines and the 1923 R 32 motorcycle to the 1961 Neue Klasse and today's electric iX3.
History of BMW motorcycles
The history of BMW motorcycles began in 1923 with the R 32, whose boxer engine with shaft drive has defined the marque for a century.
History of bridges
The history of bridges tracks how bridge building advanced from timber and stone to iron, steel, and reinforced concrete, from simple felled trees to long suspension spans.
History of civil engineering education
The history of civil engineering education covers the shift from apprenticeship and military schools to universities, with the first civil engineering degree awarded by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1835.
History of coal mining
The history of coal mining covers extraction from prehistoric burning and medieval British workings, through Newcomen's 1712 steam engine and the 1913 British peak, to the modern global industry.
History of communication
The history of communication is the study of how humans moved information across space and time, from speech, writing, and print through telegraph, telephone, and radio to the internet.
History of computer science
The history of computer science traces the study of computation from 1930s mathematical theory and 1940s electronic computers to a university discipline by the late 1950s.
History of computing
The history of computing is the development of machines and techniques for automatic calculation, from mechanical aids like the abacus to electronic stored-program computers and modern semiconductor systems.
History of computing hardware
The history of computing hardware records machines for automatic calculation, from Babbage and ENIAC through transistors and the 1971 Intel 4004 to today's chiplet-based systems, with performance up over four million times since the 4004.
History of construction
The history of construction records how humans planned and built shelters, monuments, and cities, from Neolithic earth and timber through Roman concrete to steel frames and prefabrication.
History of cryptography
The history of cryptography traces secret writing from ancient Egypt through al-Kindī's frequency analysis, the Polish and British Enigma breaks, and Diffie and Hellman's 1976 public-key breakthrough.
History of desalination
The history of desalination covers removing salt from seawater, from Aristotle's evaporation experiments and the 1881 Malta plant to reverse osmosis, now in over 20,000 plants worldwide.
History of Eclipse Aviation
Eclipse Aviation was an Albuquerque aircraft maker founded by Vern Raburn in 1998 to build the Eclipse 500 very light jet, which entered service after a controversial certification.
History of email
The history of email traces the messaging system from Ray Tomlinson's first networked ARPANET message in 1971, through SMTP in 1982, to over 4.3 billion users.
History of Facebook
The history of Facebook traces the social network founded by Mark Zuckerberg at Harvard in 2004, which opened to the public in 2006 and reached one billion users by 2012.
History of firefighting
The history of firefighting, also known as the history of the fire service, traces organized fire suppression from Rome's vigiles and the Great Fire of London to publicly funded professional departments.
History of flight training
The history of flight training covers how pilots learned to fly, from pre-Wright brothers apprenticeship through the Gosport System, the Civilian Pilot Training Program, and simulator-based, competency-assessed modern instruction.
History of Ford Motor Company
The history of Ford Motor Company covers the American automaker Henry Ford founded in 1903, maker of the Model T and pioneer of the moving assembly line.
History of gasoline
The history of gasoline runs from an 1860s waste byproduct of kerosene refining to the dominant US car fuel, shaped by cracking, leaded fuel, and regulation.
History of General Motors
The history of General Motors traces the American automaker William Durant founded in Detroit in 1908, from Alfred Sloan's brand ladder and market dominance to its 2009 government-backed bankruptcy.
History of glass
The history of glass covers manufactured glass from silica, alkali, and lime, beginning in Mesopotamia before 1500 BC, transformed by Roman glassblowing and Pilkington's 1959 float process.
History of Gmail
The history of Gmail covers Google's free webmail service, launched April 1, 2004 with 1 GB of free storage, from creation by Paul Buchheit to its 2026 AI era.