Sort The Historic Events #57

Thomas Newcomen builds the first commercial steam engine to pump water out of mines
Nylon, the first fully synthetic fiber is produced by Wallace Carothers
The first thermonuclear weapon is developed
Percy Spencer, while employed at Raytheon, would patent a magnetron based microwave oven
The phonautograph, a device for recording sound, is invented by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville
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SortWhiz.com is a sorting game. In each game you are given a list of items in random order. Your goal is to sort the items in the correct order in as few tries as possible. You simply drag and drop the items into the correct order and press "Guess".

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Step back in time and explore some of the most groundbreaking discoveries and milestones in human history! From revolutionary inventions to pivotal scientific breakthroughs, each event has shaped the world we live in today. Can you accurately determine which of these historic moments happened first?

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