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Radio
https://www.clevelandhs.org/ourpages/webdesign4/dane/science.html#:~:text=The%201920s%20was%20a%20decade,Ford's%20automobile%20industry%20were%20invented The radio was invented for entertainment to the masses, and was found in many households for dancing, singing, and many other uses. -
Telephone
https://history.lbl.gov/1930s/#:~:text=The%20Golden%20Age%20of%20radio,Suffrage%20came%20and%20stayed.
The telephone was not invented during this time, but became a staple in households -
Computer
https://www.google.com/url?q=https://dcmp.org/media/7828-inventions-that-shook-the-world-1940s%23:~:text%3DFeatured%2520inventions%2520include%253A%2520the%2520jet,and%2520the%2520Crash%2520Test%2520Dummy&sa=D&source=docs&ust=1677095585142105&usg=AOvVaw0WUZU76VmMdPXcSLv8vloc In the 1940s, computers took up entire rooms, John Mauchly created the ENIAC during World War II to help the Army The machine could calculate thousands of problems each second -
Television
https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences/culture-magazines/1950s-science-and-technology-topics-news#:~:text=During%20the%201950s%2C%20technological%20innovations,and%20information%20for%20most%20Americans
In 1950, only 9% of American homes had television sets but by 1959, 85.9% of families had purchased sets (Patterson 250). Citizens were purchasing televisions at such a remarkable pace because the money income of Americans drastically increased by 50 percent. -
Satellites
https://dcmp.org/media/7830-inventions-that-shook-the-world-1960s#:~:text=The%20inventions%20of%20the%201960s,%2C%20Tasers%2C%20and%20industrial%20robots. The initial purpose for the satellite was to map the Earth's surface, but it soon evolved into a cosmic tool used for communication, weather, and international investigation. -
Floppy disk
https://www.pastemagazine.com/tech/7-tech-advancements-from-the-70s-that-changed-the/ Up until the late 1970s, most software applications for tasks such as word processing and accounting were written by the personal computer owners themselves. But thanks to the floppy, companies could write programs, put them on the disks, and sell them through the mail or in stores. -
CD
https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/gadgets/other-gadgets/80s-tech.htm CDs were made available to the public in 1982 and they quickly became the most efficient way of storing music. Before CDs, music was stored and played on vinyl and cassette tapes. Vinyl discs were a lot bigger than CDs and could be broken easily. -
Internet
In 1991, the World Wide Web was developed by Tim Berners-Lee (pictured at left) as a way for people to share information. The hyper-text format available through his Web made the internet much easier to use because all documents could be seen easily on-screen without downloading.
https://www.patenteducationseries.com/patent-career/10-things-you-may-not-have-realized-were-invented-in-the-1990s.html -
Social media
https://nowtoronto.com/news/top-10-advancements-that-shaped-the-2000s-and-beyond/
Social media platforms allow users to have conversations, share information and create web content. There are many forms of social media, including blogs, micro-blogs, wikis, social networking sites, photo-sharing sites, instant messaging, video-sharing sites, podcasts, widgets, virtual worlds, and more. -
Self Driving Cars
https://www.csail.mit.edu/news/10-biggest-tech-breakthroughs-2010s
Computers based on sophisticated systems and algorithms will essentially eliminate costly human error. Major causes of accidents, including drunk or distracted driving, will not be factors with self-driving cars. It's estimated self-driving cars can reduce accidents by up to 90%.
