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Escalators
Charles Seeberger made the modern escalator. This allowed people incapable of walking stairs to finally be able to go up them. (1) -
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Radio Transmission
The first ever radio single was transmitted by Marconi. Since this date, there has been a lot of improvement and it another year until it was broadcasted to the public. (38) -
Vacuum
H. Cecil Booth made the first vacuum. He got the idea by putting a hankerchief on his mouth and sucking up dust of the ground. This gave him the idea for the first vacuum filter. (2) -
Air conditioner
The first air conditioner was created by Willis Carrier. This is such an important invention because today airconditioning is in almost every home and building in America. It is hard to imagine a life without airconditioning. (44) (A) -
Lie Detector
James Mackenzie made the first ever lie detector. This was the first and not as successful lie detector. Many more and improved models have been made since then. (1) -
Airplane
The first ever airplane was flown by the Wright Brothers. Imagine what life would be like today without airplanes. (45) -
Color Photograph
Auguste and Louis Lumiere invented the color photography. They took three different pictures with different color slides then overlapped them creating this one colored imaged. It was of a Tartan Rabbit. (51) -
Motorized Video Camera
These cameras replaced the origanal handcranked video camera and made video taping much easier. (5) -
Liquid Fuel Rocket
Robert H. Goddard invented the first liquid fueled rocket. The first launch only lasted for 2.5 seconds and went 41 feet in the air. It led to Sputnik and The Moon Landing. (46) -
Radio Tuners
The first radio tuner was invented allowing the same radio to pick up different stations. (6) -
The superheterodyne radio circuit
Edwin Howard Armstrong invented this form of technology in which the reciever mixes the frequencies to convert a recieved signal to a fixed intermidiate fequency. Whatever this means, it is the technology used in all tvs and radios today. (8) -
Furtune Cookie
Charles Jung came out with the furtune cookie. This is not necessarily technology, but it is very interesting. No Chinese restaurant would be the same without it. (7) -
Pop-up Toaster
Charles Strite invented this. Just imagine life without ever having a poptart or toaster strudel. It just wouldn't be the same. (9) -
Better Lie Detector
John Larson invented the better and more modern lie detector. There was already one made but it didn't work very well and this was the first one that was actually used in real interogations. (C) (11) -
Robot
Karel Capek created the first robot for the play Rossum's Universal Robots. The word was derived from the Czech word meaning, forced labor or serf. (10) (D) -
3-D movie
The Power of Love was the first movie ever made. It used dual-strip in the red/green anaglyph format in which the audience would wear one red lens and one green one. (12) -
Traffic Signal
Garrett A. Morgan invented the traffic signal. (13) -
Electric Razor
Jacob Schick patented the electric razor. This makes shaving much easier. (14) -
First Car Radio
Paul Galvin made the first car radio. (15) -
Zoom lens
The zoom lens was invented. This is a feature that makes photography so much easier than it used to be. Frank G. Back invented this. (16) -
Stereo Record
Stereo records were invented by Alan Blumlein. (17) -
First Digital Computer
John Vincent Atanasoff and Cliff Berry are the two men are credited for designing the first computer. (19) -
Photocopier
Chester Carlson made the first photocopier. This was a very slow process of copier an image and was not very efficient. (18) -
Printer
Chester Carlson developed the first printer in 1938. (20) -
Helicopter
Igor Sikorsky invents the first successful helicopter. (22) -
Electron Microscope
Max Knoll and Ernst Ruska invented the electron microscope. The recieved the Nobel Prize in physics for their invention. (39) -
Modern Color Television
Peter Goldmark invents modern color television system. Many other inventors had come out with uncessful color tvs before this, but his was the first that really worked well. (47) (F) -
Microwave oven
The microwave oven was invented by Percy L. Spencer. He was working with an active radar when he relized his candy bar in his pocket started to melt. He realized it melted because of microwaves. (54) -
Atomic Bomb
The first atomic bomb was tested in Alamogordo, New Mexico. (23) -
Jukebox
Robert Hope-Jones invented the Wurlitzer jukebox, allowing people to party. (24) -
Video Recorder
Charles Ginsburg created the first video recorder. This allowed television companies to record audio much more efficiently. This was the first technology that let saved information onto magnetic tapes. (25) -
Transistor Radio
Texas Instruments invented the first transistor radio that allowed you to fit the radio in your pocket. It was the easiest way to listen to music and to listen to people. (26) -
Solar Cell
Gerald Pearson, Calvin Fuller and Daryl Chapin observed that solar power could give power to items. They were able to have 6% efficiency. (27) -
Laser
Gordon Gould invented the first laser, or "Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation". The theory had been noticed by Einstein but Gould was the first to make it happen. (40) -
Cassette
The Philips Company of the Netherlands invented the first audio-cassette tape. (28) -
Spacewars
Steve Russell invented the first ever computer video game. There were a few other games but this was the first one played on the computer. Video games are a huge part of life today. (55) -
CD
James Russell invented the compact disk in 1965. It was made during htis time but it did not become popular until it started being sold many years later. He was an avid listener to music but he did not like how the record could get ruined so easily and wanted another form of music. (29) -
Hand held calculator
Texas Instruments develped the first ever hand held calculator. It had 18 keys and could display 12 digital numbers at a time. (30) -
ATM
Don Wetzel invented an American made ATM in 1968. There had been other prototypes that had been around before, but this is the one that was used in the united states. They were not put in to use until the 1980s however. (32) -
ARPANET
Developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, of the United States Department of Defense. This was the first ever prototype for the world web and was mostly used for nuclear warfare. (31) -
Floppy Disk
Alan Shugart invents the floppy disk. This was the most convinient way to store information on a computer. (48) -
Dot-printer
The dot-matrix printer was invented and it ran with a computer. It was the easiest to use and gave the best picture. (33) -
LCD
Commonly misinterpreted as LSD, LCD was invented by James Fergason. LCD technology is used in almost everything we have today, from watches, to clocks, to many more items. (50) -
Word Processor
Seymour Rubenstein and Rob Barnaby invented the first word processor, Word Star. It was not released until 1979. (1) -
First Mobil Phone
Martin Cooper created the first mobil telephone. It was 2.5 pounds and 9 inches long. It only allowed for 30 minutes of call time. (35) -
Personal Computer: Xerox PARC
It was the first computer that was designed for personal use but it was not exactly a house computer. They were mostly used at a few universities and Xerox companies. (34) -
The Walkman
Nobutoshi Kihara, a worker for Sony, created the walkman. (49) -
Labtop
The first ever labtop was the Osborne 1 created by Adam Osborne. It weighed 24 pounds and had a five inch screen. It was not very successful. (35) -
Miscrosoft Windows
Bill Gates came out with this in 1983, but did not release it until 1985. This has become the most widely used word processor in the world. (41) -
World Wide Web
Created by Tim Berners-Lee, the world wide web has become the basis for all internet usage today. (52) -
Digital Answering Machine
Dr. Kazuo Hashimoto invented the modern answering machine in 1983, but it was not used in the public until 1991. There had been older and less efficient answering machines before this one, but this was the most modern and useful. (36) -
WiFi
NCR Corporation/AT&T invented wifi. It was not widely used until 1999 when Apple said that it would use WiFi in all of its labtops. Vic Hayes is named the father of WiFi and also the main inventor. (42) -
Global Positioning System
U.S. DoD invented the Global Positioning System. Today it is the only Global Navigation Satellite System in the world. Many countries are all working on it and it costs $750 million a year. (37) -
DVD
They were developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic. They could hold much more information than a CD while having the same dimensions. (50) -
Web TV
Diba Inc and Zenith Electronics came out with the first web tv. The first ever show was The Spot created by Scott Zakarin. (43)
