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Obsolete Items

By Binel

  • Alarm clocks

    Alarm clocks
    The first American alarm clock was created by Levi Hutchins, of New Hampshire in the United States, in 1787.

  • Fax Machines

    Fax Machines
    Scottish inventor Alexander Bain worked on chemical mechanical fax type devices and in 1846 was able to reproduce graphic signs in laboratory experiments.

  • Landline

    Landline
    While Italian innovator Antonio Meucci (pictured at left) is credited with inventing the first basic phone in 1849, and Frenchman Charles Bourseul devised a phone in 1854, Alexander Graham Bell won the first U.S. patent for the device in 1876.

  • Film processing

    Film processing
    The first motion picture camera was invented by the Frenchman Louis Le Prince in the 1880s

  • Polaroid

    Polaroid
    The invention of commercially viable instant cameras, which were easy to use, is generally credited to American scientist Edwin Land, who unveiled the first commercial instant camera, the model 95 Land Camera, in 1948, a year after unveiling instant film in New York City.

  • VCR's

    VCR's
    VCR's were Invented in 1956, the technology which produced the video cassette recorder (VCR) is already at the end of its days.

  • Floppy Disks

    Floppy Disks
    The floppy disk drive (FDD) was invented at IBM by Alan Shugart in 1967.

  • Dot matrix printers

    Dot matrix printers
    heir LA30 30 character/second (CPS) dot matrix printer, the first of many, was introduced in 1970

  • CDs

    CDs
    The first commercial compact disc was produced on 17 August 1982.

  • PDAs

    PDAs
    The first PDA. This bulky device is the Apple Newton MessagePad. Introduced in 1993, it was one of the first Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) devices -- indeed, that phrase was originally coined by Apple CEO John Sculley for the Newton.