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First Television
Television The beginnings of mechanical television can be traced back to the discovery of the photoconductivity of the element selenium by Willoughby Smith in 1873, the envention of a scanning disk by Paul Gottlieb Nipkow in the 1884 and John Logie's Baird's demonstration of televised moving images in 1926. As a 23 year old German university student, Paul Nipkow proposed and patented the first television in 1884. -
ENIAC
about.com In 1946, John Mauchly and John Presper Eckert developed the ENIAC I (Electrical Numerical Integrator And Calculator). The American military sponsored their research; the army needed a computer for calculating artillery-firing tables, the settings used for different weapons under varied conditions for target accuracy. -
Mobile Cellphone Service
Cellphone service In the United States, engineers from Bell Labs began work on a system to allow mobile users to place and receive telephone calls from automobiles, leading to the inauguration of mobile service on 17 June 1946 in St. Louis, Missouri. Shortly after, AT&T offered Mobile telephone service. -
Mouse
Mouse In computing, a mouse is a pointing device that functions by detecting two-dimensional motion relative to its supporting surface. Physically, a mouse consists of an object held under one of the user's hands, with one or more buttons. -
Digital Camera
Digital Camera A digital camera is a camera that encodes digital images images and videos digitally and stores them for later reproduction. Most cameras sold today are digital, and digital cameras are incorporated into many devices ranging from PDAs and mobile phones (called camera phones) to vehicles. -
Apple Computer
Apple Computer Apple Inc., formerly Apple Ccmputer, Inc., is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Cupertino, California that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software and personal computers. Its best known hardware products are the Mac line of computers, the iPod music player, the iPhone smartphone and the iPad tablet computer. -
Arpanet
arpanet The advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was one of the world's first operational packet switching networks. The packet switching of the ARPANET together with TCP/IP would form the backbone of how the internet works. -
Mac
Mac The Macintosh, marketed as Mac, is a line of personal computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. It is targeted mainly at the home, education, and creative professional markets. -
Ethernet
ethernet Ethernet is a family of computer technologies for local area networks (LANs). Ethernet was commercially introduced in the 1980s and standardized in 1985 as IEEE 802.3 -
Bluetooth
Bluetooth Bluetooth is a wireless technology standard for exchanging data over short distaces from fixed and mobile devices, creating personal area networks with high levels of security. Created by telecom vendor Ericsson in 1994, it was originally conveived as a wireless alternative to RS-232 data cables. -
DVD player
DVD player DVD is a digital optical disc storage format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capavity than compact discs while having the same dimensions. -
iPod
ipod The iPod is a line of portable media players designed and marketed by Apple Inc. The first line was released on October 23, 2001, about 8 1/2 months after iTunes was released. -
iPhone
iPhone The iPhone is a line of smartphones designed and marketed by Apple Inc. It runs Apple's iOS mobile operating system, known as the "iPhone OS" until June 2010, alongside the release of iOS 4. -
Ipad
IpadThe iPad is a line of tablet computers designed and marketed by Apple Inc., which runs Apple's iOS. The most recent iPad, the fourth-generation iPad and iPad mini, were released on November 2, 2012. -
Amazon Kindle
Amazon Kindle The Amazon Kindle is a series of e-book readers designed and marketed by Amazon.com. Amazon Kindle devices enable users to shop for, download, browse, and read e-books, newspapers, magazines, blogs, and other digital media via wireless networking.
