Technology
- December 10 - Old Aswan Dam, designed by William Willcocks, completed across the River Nile in Egypt.
- First Vierendeel bridge built, across the Scheldt at Avelgem in Belgium.
- Orville and Wilbur Wright fly for the first time at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
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Famous quotes containing the word technology:
“If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. Whoever concerns himself with big technology, either to push it forward or to stop it, is gambling in human lives.”
—Freeman Dyson (b. 1923)
“Our technology forces us to live mythically, but we continue to think fragmentarily, and on single, separate planes.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)