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Film is what you put in a camera. The camera would take a picture and it would be on the film afterwards.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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pagers allow the user to reply to messages, originate messages and forward messages using free-form text as well as "canned" responses.
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this is a 8-Track. it is a magnetic-tape sound recording technology
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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.
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You could take pictures with these cameras and they would print the picture right after you took it
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a disk resembling a larger CD but able to store video, now generally replaced by the DVD.