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My 1940's Timeline
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The Z3
As a part of a government project, the Z3 became the world's first working programmable, fully digital computer. It was also the first computer-controlled by software. -
The Kidney Dialysis Machine
Dr. Willem Kolff invented the machine in 1943(Couldnt find the actual date). During the second world war, he made major discoveries in the field of dialysis. He would go on to save countless lives. -
Colored Television
The first color system was developed in 1928, however, it was CBS and Peter Goldmark in the early 1940s who pioneered a system that transmitted an image in each of the three primary colors. -
Juke Box
Though the first coin-operated jukebox was already around in the 1890s. The jukebox you know today didn't appear until the '40s. The updated jukeboxes made the selection and playing process for records even better. -
Microwave Oven
In 1947 Percy Spence is the man that brought the microwave oven into existence in 1947. IT was called the Radarange. The invention was based on radar technology that was created during the second war. It did take a little longer for the friendly countertop microwave to hit the market.