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This led to the personal computer (PC) revolution. [502] 1971: The first space station, Salyut 1, is launched. 1971: IBM developed and released the world's first floppy disk and disk drive. [503] 1972: The first video game console, used primarily for playing video games on a TV, is the Magnavox Odyssey. [504]
Heron (c. 10–70), Roman Egypt – usually credited with invention of the aeolipile, although it may have been described a century earlier; John Herschel (1792–1871), UK – photographic fixer (hypo), actinometer; Harry Houdini (1874–1926) U.S. – flight time illusion; Heinrich Hertz (1857–1894), Germany – radio telegraphy ...
From the first Apple computer to the COVID-19 vaccine, here are the most revolutionary inventions that were born in the U.S.A. in the past half-century.
A year later, this method is introduced in the United States. The car radio top model "Mexico" from Becker for the first time to an FM area (in mono) and an automatic tuning. 1954 RCA developed for the first apparatus for recording video signals on magnetic tapes. 22 km magnetic tape are needed per hour.
Timeline of computing presents events in the history of computing organized by year and grouped into six topic areas: predictions and concepts, first use and inventions, hardware systems and processors, operating systems, programming languages, and new application areas.
The magazine features the year's most groundbreaking inventions -- from flying hoverboards to a pill that monitors your vitals Popular Science's top inventions of 2016 revealed Skip to main content
This sub-section is about paper making; for the writing material first used in ancient Egypt, see papyrus.. Paper: Although it is recorded that the Han dynasty (202 BC – AD 220) court eunuch Cai Lun (50 AD – AD 121) invented the pulp papermaking process and established the use of new materials used in making paper, ancient padding and wrapping paper artifacts dating from the 2nd century BC ...
The top-performing stocks generated relatively modest annualized returns, averaging 13.5 percent a year. Time — not short-term spikes — is their superpower for building wealth. Returns had an ...