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Telex Messaging Network.
Inventor: Unknow however it originated from Germany’s Third Reich.
Telex originally started as a way to distribute military messages. However, it soon becomes a two-way text-based communication device world-wide. -
World Brain
Inventor: Paul Otlet
Paul Otlet co-creates a "search engine" named Mundaneum. It combines card catalogs with sixteen million entries, photos, documents, microfilms, and more. Otlet technology was limited, however, it paved the way with its principles to foreshadow features of today’s Internet.
https://www.sutori.com/item/world-brains-1934-paul-otlet-co-creates-a-search-engine-named-mundaneum -
Z1 (computer)
Inventor: Konrad Zuse
Z1 was an electrically driven mechanical calculator with limited programmability, reading instructions from punched celluloid film.
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Elektro robot
Inventor: Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Elektro was a humanoid-looking robot with a height of 7 feet tall and weighing 265 pounds. The robot could walk by voice command and it could also speak using pre recorder messages. The robot could smoke cigarettes and move his arms and head around.
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The Hewlett-Packard Company is founded
Inventors: Bill Hewlett and David Packard
Bill and David founded the Hewlett-Packard Company. Their first product was the HP200A Audio Oscillator. The company gained popularity after Walt Disney pictures purchased several of their model 200B and use it to show the movie Fantasia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hewlett-Packard
