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Credit Card
People no longer had to carry around money
Can purchase items you can’t fully afford yet -
Color Television
Was used in other countries, but was first introduced to the U.S. in 1951.
CBS showed the first color commercial, which many couldn't see since they had black and white televisions. -
Transistor Radio
Most popular electronic communication device in history
Billions were manufactured -
Black Box Flight Recorder
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Solar Battery
It was discovered that when sunlight strikes a certain spot, it produced a large amount of free electrons.
It could only convert six percent of the sunlight into useful energy -
Television Remote Control
Zenith Radio Corporation made the first one, called the “Lazy Bone”
Was first connected to a cord plugging into the tv, which people didn’t like very much. -
Laser
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Copy Machine
The first automatic office copier to make copies on plain paper the 914 in introduced by Haloid Xerox .
A floor mounted device it was designed by James G. Blamer of Armstrong -Blamer & Associates in collaboration with Don Shepardson -
Heart Pacemaker
Controls abnormal heart rhythms
uses electrical pulses to prompt the heart beat to a normal heartbeat -
Computer Modem
ATT designed it dataphone aka modem
First commercial modem
