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@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ Int 1907 Lee De Forest invented a practically usable **[vacuum tube](vacuum_tube
From 1914 to 1918 there was **[World War I](ww1.md)**.
Around 1915 [Albert Einstein](einstein.md), a German physicist, completed his **[General Theory of Relativity](relativity.md)**, a groundbreaking physics theory that describes the fundamental nature of space and time and gives so far the best description of the Universe since [Newton](newton.md). This would shake the world of science as well as popular culture and would enable advanced technology including nuclear energy, space satellites, high speed computers and many others.
Meanwhile (around 1915) [Albert Einstein](einstein.md), a German physicist, completed his **[General Theory of Relativity](relativity.md)**, a groundbreaking physics theory that describes the fundamental nature of space and time and gives so far the best description of the Universe since [Newton](newton.md). This would shake the world of science as well as popular culture and would enable advanced technology including nuclear energy, nuclear weapons, space satellites, high speed computers and many others.
7 November 1917 was the date of so called October Revolution ("October" because of different dating back then) that was part of the **Russian Revolution** led by Vladimir Lenin and his [Marxist](marxism.md) Bolshevik party. This got rid of the Russian Empire and would eventually establish the **[Soviet Union](ussr.md)** in 1922.
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In 1924 about 50% of US households own a car.
October 22 1925 has seen the invention of **[transistor](transistor.md)** by Julius Lilienfeld (Austria-Hungary), a component that would replace vacuum tubes thanks to its better properties, and which would become probably the most essential part of computers. At the time the invention didn't see much attention, it would only become relevant decades later.
October 22 1925 witnessed the invention of **[transistor](transistor.md)** by Julius Lilienfeld (Austria-Hungary), a component that would replace vacuum tubes thanks to its better properties, and which would become probably the most essential part of computers. At the time the invention didn't see much attention, it would only become relevant decades later.
In 1931 [Kurt Gödel](kurt_godel.md), a genius mathematician and logician from Austria-Hunagry (nowadays Czech Republic), published revolutionary papers with his [incompleteness theorems](incompleteness.md) which proved that, simply put, mathematics has fundamental limits and "can't prove everything". This led to **[Alan Turing](turing.md)**'s publications in 1936 that nowadays stand as the **foundations of [computer science](compsci.md)** -- he introduced a theoretical computer called the **[Turing machine](turing_machine.md)** and with it he proved that computers, no matter how powerful, will never be able to "compute everything". Turing also predicted the importance of computers in the future and has created several [algorithms](algorithm.md) for future computers (such as a [chess](chess.md) playing program).