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In 1951, Boris Cohen and Joseph Pucci patented the first table that could be easily carried around. [3] It was widely used by paper-hangers and handymen, and is fairly indistinguishable from present day aluminum folding tables. In the 1950s and 1960s, Falco [4] and Samsonite [5] tables were popular. [6]
A TV tray table, TV dinner tray, TV table, or personal table is a type of collapsible furniture that functions as a small and easily portable, folding table. These small tables were originally designed to be a surface from which one could eat a meal while watching television. The phrase tray-table can also refer to a fold-away tray, such as ...
The first Golden Age of Television[1] is an era of television in the United States marked by its large number of live productions. The period is generally recognized as beginning in 1947 with the first episode of the drama anthology Kraft Television Theater [2] and ending in 1960 with the final episode of Playhouse 90 [3] (although a few Golden ...
The Black & Decker Workmate is a general purpose portable workbench and general carpentry tool manufactured under the brand Black & Decker. It is a folding table for portability, but when unfolded stands about 3 feet (1 m) tall. The table top consists of two wooden jaws, one of which is fixed and the other moveable on threaded rods operated by ...
YouTube is an American online video-sharing platform headquartered in San Bruno, California, founded by three former PayPal employees— Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim —in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion, since which it operates as one of Google's subsidiaries.
First Spaceship on Venus In 1962 the shortened 79-minute dubbed release from Crown International Pictures substituted the title First Spaceship on Venus for the English-speaking market. [ 6 ] The film was released theatrically in the U.S. as a double feature with the re-edited version of the 1958 Japanese Kaiju film Varan the Unbelievable .
1922: Charles Francis Jenkins' first public demonstration of television principles. A set of static photographic pictures is transmitted from Washington, D.C. to the Navy station NOF in Anacostia by telephone wire, and then wirelessly back to Washington; Philo Farnsworth first describes an image dissector tube, which uses cesium to produce images electronically, but will not produce a working ...
A Tip-top table is a folding table with the tabletop hinged so it can be placed into a vertical position when not used to save space. It is also called tilt-top table, tip table, [1] snap table[2][3] some variations are known as tea table, loo table. These multi-purpose tables were historically used for playing games, drinking tea or spirits ...