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Нобелова награда

21.10 - Alfred Nobel was born

Alfred Nobel

On October 21, 1833, Swedish engineer, chemist, and entrepreneur Alfred Nobel was born in Stockholm. He is remembered in history as the man who invented dynamite and established the Nobel Prize. At the age of ten, Alfred moved with his family to St. Petersburg. At the age of eighteen, he left Russia and went to Paris, where he studied chemistry, …

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17.10 - The first transatlantic telecommunications service is launched

On October 17, 1907, Guglielmo Marconi's company - "The Wireless Telegraph & Signal Company" - launched the first transatlantic 24-hour wireless telecommunications service. Messages were transmitted via powerful radio transmitters developed by the Italian inventor and located in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada and Clifden, Ireland. On this …

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