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Atari: Allan Alcorn
Coin-operated games were around but nothing seemed to compare to them like Pong. Pong was made Allan Alcorn from Atari. It was very simple compared to games today but it was the spark that brought about arcade games everywhere -
Philips: Multiple Engineers
Videocassette Recorders, or VCR didn't get big till mid 70s. They were about the size of a briefcase and they changed the way people were able to enjoy shows and movies. It was Japanese firms that made them reliable and affordable to the people of that time. People were able to record two or three episodes of a show on one cassette. However industry folks said this was killing the movie industry as less people went into theaters to watch movies -
Motorola: Martin Cooper
The first commercial phones weren't around till the 80's. However the first successful phone call made with a prototype brick phone was done in 1973 by Martin Cooper with Motorola. He also made a poke at his competition by calling Dr. Joel S. Engel of AT&T (Motorola’s competitor) while standing on a sidewalk in Manhattan -
Made by Terry Walker, Harry Garland, Roger Melen. Kodak and Fujifilm were leading the film photography industry when the first commercial digital cameras was released. The Cromemco Cyclops. Cromemco was formed a year before the release of Cyclops. It made images at a max of 32x32 pixels -
Made by the U.S. Department of Defense. After the space race of the 60s people wanted the next space venture, the product was the Global Positions System. It went through a decade of experiment and testing before it's debut in 1978 with the NAVSTAR satellite. NAVSTAR satellites are still in orbit today, thought they have probably seen quiet a few upgrades since the 70s