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SourceThe beginnings of a mechanical television can be traced back to the discovery of the photoconductivity of the element selenium by Willoughby Smith in 1873, the invention of a scanning disk by Paul Gottlieb Nipkow in 1884 and John Logie Baird's demonstration of televised moving images in 1926.
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It is generally acknowledged that the first really practical automobiles with petrol/gasoline-powered internal combustion engines were completed almost simultaneously by several German inventors working independently: Karl Benz built his first automobile in 1885 in Mannheim.
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Robert W. Paul built the first filming camera in 1897.
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SourceThe ENIAC was invented for military purpouses during World War II to launch and fire missles. The machine was the size of a room and cost $500,000 to build.
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Source The Programmed Data Processor was the first computer in Digital Equipment Corporation's PDP series. It was the first computer to play history's first game on a minicomputer.
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Source The Kenback-1 was the first personal computer advertized for $750. It relied on switches for input and lights for output.
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Source The first email was sent by Ray Tomlinson, but he was supposed to be working on a different project. Ray Tomlinson also was the first to use te @ sign for the use of an email.
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Source The Cray almost doubled the operating speed of competing machines with a processing system that ran 420 million floating-point operatios per second.
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Technically, AT&T dates back when Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the phone. But in 1984, it broke up into 8 companies. -
The SMART Board was the first interactive board to provide a touch screen. Connected to an LCD panel and a computer, the SMART Board interactive white board brought technology to classrooms, meeting rooms and boardrooms.
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Source The Mosiac Web Browser was the first web browser to be created. It was originally designed for a Unix system running X-windows.
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SourceThe iPod Touch is a pocket sized electronic designed by Apple. It can be used as a music and video player, digital camera, hand held game device and a personal digital assistant.
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SourceThe first iPod nano weighed 0.78 ounces. It was created to hold a big selection of songs and shuffle them.
