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instant camera
Samuel Shlafrock created the first instant camera in 1923, which combined a camera and a portable darkroom into a single compartment. Edwin Land, an American scientist, is credited with creating the instant camera as we know it today. Land's business, which is now known as the Polaroid Corporation, developed the instant camera for the general public in 1947. -
electronic television
Along with his new wife Pem Gardner, Farnsworth moved to Los Angeles and started a job. He soon spent the first $6,000 that Everson and Gorrell had put up, but Everson managed to secure $25,000 from the Crocker First National Bank of San Francisco in addition to lab space. On September 7, 1927, Farnsworth successfully transmitted the first electrical television signal, and the following year he applied for a patent for his method. -
kodachrome (colorfilm)
Before the 1935 release of Eastman Kodak Company's Kodachrome film, those attempting to capture a colour image had to deal with heavy glass plates, tripods, prolonged exposures, and a meticulous development process, all of which produced less than desirable images that were dull, tinted, and far from realistic. Therefore, sales of Kodachrome represent less than 1% of the company's revenue -
parking meter
Magee and Gerald A. Hale were the creators. The Hale-Magee Park-O-Meter Company was founded by Hale and Magee. On July 16, 1935, the first metre was set up at the southeast corner of First Street and Robinson Avenue. At intervals of 20 feet along the curb, on the marked areas on the pavement, were put the entirely mechanical devices that cost a nickel an hour to operate. -
ENIAC computer
The first programmable, electronic, general-purpose digital computer was the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, which was finished in 1945. These features were available on other computers, but the ENIAC offered them all in one convenient package. It was reprogrammable, Turing-complete, and capable of handling "a vast class of numerical problems." -
colour tv
The first electrical, colour television system was created by RCA Laboratories' research team between 1946 and 1950. On December 17, 1953, a successful colour television system based on a system created by RCA started airing commercially. -
modern copy machine
Thermo-Fax, the first modern copier introduced by 3M in 1950, created a copy by passing infrared light through an original document and a piece of paper that had been treated with heat-sensitive chemicals. Soon after, rival firms released competing copying technologies and sold products under the names Dupliton, Dial-A-Matic Autostat, Verifax, Copease, and Copymation. -
video recorder
Charles Ginsberg developed the VHS recorder while working as a researcher for Ampex Corporation in 1951. The device functioned by turning live video feeds from cameras into electrical impulses that were recorded on magnetic tape. In 1956, Ampex charged $50,000 for the first video tape recorder. Sony started selling the first home VCRs in 1971. -
touch tone telephones
After the DTMF system had been tested for several years in numerous areas, including Greensburg, Bell Telephone began offering customers in the Pittsburgh region communities of Carnegie and Greensburg, Pennsylvania, the first electronic push-button system with touch-tone dialling on November 18, 1963. -
video game console
The first multiplayer, multi-game video game system was created in 1967 by Ralph Baer and his coworkers at Sanders Associates, Inc. Baer knew that the games needed to be entertaining in order to attract investors and customers as Sanders planned to licence the technology for a commercial business. -
email
Email as we know it today was not truly formed until 1978, when Shiva Ayyadurai, a 14-year-old high school student from New Jersey, created a new software version of the system with a user-friendly interface. -
portable music player
In 1979, Sony introduced and sold a lot of the Sony Walkman, the first fully portable tape player. It was significantly more compact than an 8-track player or the preceding cassette recorders, and in contrast to earlier technology, which used tiny loudspeakers, it was listened to using stereophonic headphones. -
Nintendo Entertainment System
Few people would have anticipated the impact the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) would have on the video game industry when it was debuted in the US in 1985. The US version of the Famicom, which was first introduced as the Family Computer (Famicom) in Japan, single-handedly revived the home console business, which was on the verge of bankruptcy at the time. -
Nintendo Game Boy
The 1989 launch of the Nintendo Gaming Boy revolutionised the video game industry. It wasn't the first handheld gaming system, but it was the most widely used. The original Game Boy was not a technological marvel, much like Nintendo's modern platforms. The 8-bit portable system was physically large, featured a monochrome screen, and allowed for the use of replaceable cartridges. -
playstation
Sony Computer Entertainment introduced the PlayStation video game platform in 1994. Sony's ascent to dominance in the video game industry was heralded with the PlayStation, one of a new generation of 32-bit systems. The PlayStation, often known as the PS1, initiated the transition away from cartridges by using compact discs (CDs). -
google
In 1996, two students at Stanford University were working on a digital library project when they came up with a unique way of mathematically categorizing Web pages. They realized that their breakthrough could revolutionize the way search engines worked by prioritizing pages that the users themselves thought were more useful to them. The search engine they created, Google, became the most used search engine on the Web, and their company became a dominant force on the Internet -
apple ipod
Apple introduced the iPod a revolutionary MP3 music player that can store up to 1,000 CD-quality tunes in a 6.5 ounce, pocket-sized form. The iPod combines a significant advancement in the design of portable music players with Apple's renowned user-friendliness and Auto-Sync, which automatically downloads all of your iTunes songs and playlists onto your iPod and updates them everytime you plug your iPod into your Mac. -
wireless headphones
The headphone cord that attached the wearer to another source was ultimately eliminated with the development of Bluetooth technology in 1999. Businessmen with spiky single-ear headphones attached to their Blackberries were typically the initial users of wireless listening technology, giving Bluetooth in its early years a rather unfashionable look. -
ipad
The iPad introduced a completely new class of computing devices in 2010. they discovered that a "impossible target client and a few bothersome omissions are overshadowed" -
chromebook
The Chromebook, a laptop or tablet with the Linux-based Chrome OS as its operating system, was created by Jeff Nelson. With most applications and data stored in the cloud rather than on the device itself, Chromebooks are typically used for a range of tasks utilising the Google Chrome browser.
