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Color television
The first color television receiver was demonstrated by John Logie Baird. This contained a telechrome tube, which was developed with the color projected on a fluorescent screen by 3 internal electronic weapons. -
Computer
The world's first electronic digital computer was built by John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry in 1942 at Iowa State University. The builders designed the ABC special-purpose computer to solve linear equations. At the same time, this had a great social impact, since it replaced 200 women who worked with manual calculators. -
Microwave
The invention of the microwave oven was a byproduct of the rapid advances made in radar technology during World War II. Spencer invented a box that trapped and condensed microwave energy to cook food quickly. -
Atomic clock
In 1948 the first atomic clock was built by the American Willard Frank Libby based on the ideas of Isaac Rabí. It was an ammonia atomic clock, its operation is similar to the laser but it operates in the region of the electromagnetic spectrum corresponding to microwaves. -
Credit card
The founders of Diners Club, which was the first credit card, offered this card to their friends and acquaintances, a total of about 200 people, and 14 restaurants in New York and its surroundings accepted its use as a means of payment. -
Steam iron
Solac innovates by creating the first steam iron; a revolution in traditional ironing methods. -
FORTRAN language
It was created by Jim Backus, its creation revolutionized the way computers were used up to that time, and it also contributed to the massive growth of programming. -
Cassette tape
This invention was created in 1963 by Phillips. The original name was "compact cassette" with the aim of being able to record voices and dictations, but it soon became an alternative to vinyl. -
Barcode
The separation and thickness of each line make it possible to know exactly what product is being invoiced when passing through the scanner. This has allowed saving time and money, this invention is still used today. -
Internet
Initially designed with the aim of creating an exclusively military network to facilitate work in this sector, the network ended up being used for other areas of life and the internet, and has not stopped growing in users to date. -
Video game consoles
In 1972, the first home video game console was launched, the Magnavox Odyssey, which was created by Ralph Baer, who is considered the father of video games. -
Mobile phone
The first mobile phone was presented by Motorola, it was not commercially available until the 1980s. It was called the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X, and it was characterized by being very large and heavy. -
Walkman
Sony created the Walkman portable music player in 1979.
It was a revolution, allowing you to listen to music with headphones whenever you wanted while taking a walk or relaxing anywhere. -
HDD
Hard drives were the main external storage tools of the 1980s. The 5-1/4 format hard drive had the capacity to store 110 kilobytes of information. -
Fax
Fax is a communication function that uses a telephone line to send scanned originals (paper) or receive data sent from remote machines. This improved communication around the world -
Superconductors
Alex Muller of Switzerland and Georg Bednorz of West Germany broke a speed record. This was due to broke a speed record: importance attributed to their discovery: of "high-temperature" superconductors, materials that they do not present electrical resistance, that is, through which electricity passes without losing energy. -
Beepers
In the beginning, they only transmitted a simple notification and you had to call a specific number to obtain more information. Later they began to directly transmit the phone number of the person who was looking for us, saving us the call, and finally, they were able to transmit text messages, similar to SMS. -
Sony PlayStation
Sony released the first PlayStation in Japan. The Playstation, which sold for around $387, skyrocket in popularity and was considered Sony's most important product since the Walkman. -
Tamagotchi
A Tamagotchi is a virtual pet created by Aki Maita and marketed by Bandai. The Tamagotchi is an electronic device with the shape and size of an egg, which has a pixelated black and white screen, where you can see a virtual pet -
Google
Working out of their college dorm, they created a search engine that used links to determine the importance of individual pages on the World Wide Web. It perfectly reflected Larry and Sergey's mission to organize the world's information to make it accessible and useful to everyone. -
Ipod
Apple was the company that dominate the market, beginning in 2001 with the first player that would combine attractive design with ease of use and good capacity. Quickly, iPod was a well-known concept, at the same time marking the beginning of an era of glory for MP3. -
Cloud computing
John McCarthy worked on the concept of time-sharing, which allowed two or more users to use a computer simultaneously. From that moment on, the concept of “Cloud Computing” or cloud computing began to emerge. -
Nissan Leaf
The Nissan car company presented its electric ecological car, which does not require fuel for its use, it is only enough to connect it, it works as a cell phone -
Virtual voice assistants
The first voice assistant was Siri, invented by the device company Apple, and implemented in the iPhone 4s. They work as a coordinator of all your devices, to which you only have to give simple voice commands. -
Hybrid plane
After several years of testing the unpowered glider, SpaceShipTwo, the hybrid spaceplane successfully made its first rocket-powered flight. -
FALCON HEAVY
It is the most powerful space rocket in the world launched by SpaceX which has a load capacity of 64 tons. -
5G
Thanks to smaller and cheaper next-generation satellites, terrestrial 5G networks can be complemented, enhanced, and expanded using satellites orbiting our planet. And thus provide coverage and communications to any corner of the planet. -
3D printing at home
3D printing promises a revolution in manufacturing, with many opportunities to produce designs that would have been prohibitively expensive. In addition, it opens a window to self-production in homes. This would make it possible to buy the designs and instructions of the elements digitally and to be able to produce the product in the comfort of home.