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Apple releases the iPhone, revolutionising the landscape of smartphone design.

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Beginning of Time

1757

John Campbell invents the sextant to enable sailors to measure the angle between an astronomical object and the horizon for the purposes of celestial navigation.

Present Day

Note: BCE means that the date is the number of years before the current era (CE/AD).
c. is short for 'circa' and indicates that the date is considered approximate.

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