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H G Wells Background
Telephone invented – 1876
Phonograph invented – 1877
Electric light invented – 1880
Maxim machine gun invented – 1884
Celluloid film invented – 1887
Box camera invented – 1888
Internal combustion engine invented – 1892
Boer War – 1899
First World War – 1914
Russian Revolution – 1917
General Strike – 1926
Second World War – 1939
Hiroshima and Nagasaki – 1945
First General Assembly of the United Nations – 1946
Successful construction of an electronic brain, Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA – 1946
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