Obsolete Timeline

  • Film

    Film

    Film is what you put in a camera. The camera would take a picture and it would be on the film afterwards.
  • Fax Machine

    Fax Machine

    Fax machines predate the telephone. Like a cross between a telephone and a printer, fax machines copy documents in one location and print them out in another
  • Electric Telegraph

    Electric Telegraph

    A telegraph works by transmitting electrical signals over wires. A telegraph has both a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter is the telegraph or transmission key. Wires connect the transmitter and receiver.
  • Rotary Telephones

    Rotary Telephones

    On the rotary phone dial, the digits are arranged in a circular layout so that a finger wheel may be rotated against spring tension with one finger. When released at the finger stop, the wheel returns to its home position driven by the spring at a speed regulated by a centrifugal governor device.
  • Vinyl albums

    Vinyl albums

    Vinyl record players are electromagnetic devices that change sound vibrations into electrical signals. When a record spins, it creates sound vibrations that get converted into electrical signals.
  • Pagers

    Pagers

    pagers allow the user to reply to messages, originate messages and forward messages using free-form text as well as "canned" responses.
  • 8-Track Technology

    8-Track Technology

    this is a 8-Track. it is a magnetic-tape sound recording technology
  • Console TV

    Console TV

    You could watch things on the console TV .televisions were designed as furniture, partly to make the TV the focal point of the home. Today, televisions are bigger than they've ever been.
  • Polaroid Cameras

    Polaroid Cameras

    You could take pictures with these cameras and they would print the picture right after you took it
  • Laser Disc

    Laser Disc

    a disk resembling a larger CD but able to store video, now generally replaced by the DVD.