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The first American sewing machine in 1846.
Elias Howe invented the first American sewing machine in 1846. The American sewing machine was made the town of New Hartford, Connecticut. The sewing machine worked by first putting the thread around the wheel .Then putting the thread in the tube to make clothing by pushing the pedal with their foot. -
Television In 1925
John Logie Baird showed a working television system to the public in 1925. Baird was a Scottish engineer and inventor of the world's first working television system in Hastings, England, in 1923. -
Computer
Hewlett-Packard is Founded. David Packard and Bill Hewlett found Hewlett-Packard in a Palo Alto, California garage. Their first product was the HP 200A Audio Oscillator, which rapidly becomes a popular piece of test equipment for engineers. Walt Disney Pictures ordered eight of the 200B model to use as sound effects generators for the 1940 movie “Fantasia.” -
1-8-1940 PC
The Complex Number Calculator (CNC) is completed. In 1939, Bell Telephone Laboratories completed this calculator, designed by researcher George Stibitz. This is considered to be the first demonstration of remote access computing. -
Jan. 1943, Harvard Mark-1
Harvard Mark-1 is completed. Conceived by Harvard professor Howard Aiken, and designed and built by IBM, the Harvard Mark-1 was a room-sized, relay-based calculator. -
Nov. 1945, ENIAC
In February, the public got its first glimpse of the ENIAC, a machine built by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert that improved by 1,000 times on the speed of its contemporaries. -
May 1949, EDSAC
Maurice Wilkes assembled the EDSAC, the first practical stored-program computer, at Cambridge University. EDSAC was completed and ran its first program in May 1949. -
Jan. 1951, Whirlwind
After designers saw a demonstration of the ENIAC computer, they decided on building a digital computer. The Whirlwind was completed in 1951. -
2010 Pininfarina Alfa Romeo 2uettottanta Spider
Drawing inspiration from the striking red open Alfa Romeo (a prestigious marquee), the Alfa Romeo 2uettottanta Spider is reminiscent of the Duetto, which was first produced in 1966. -
Mar. 16, 2012 IPad
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs said in a 1983 speech[14] that his company's strategy is really simple. -
Friday, September 21 IPhone
iPhone 5's brain is made by Samsung too. -
October 26 iPad mini
It's a bigger screen on a device that is both thinner and lighter than the Nexus 7. The iPad mini is powered by a dual core A5 processor - the same chip you'll find in the iPhone 4S.
