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In 1950, the ERA 1101 was introduced. It was one of the first commercially produced computers. The ERA 1101 was invented by Remington Rand. The computer was intended for high-speed computing and stored 1 million bits. It was one of the earliest magnetic storage devices and technology. -
Charles Ginsberg invented the videotape recorder in 1951. In 1951, the videotape recorder worked by taking live images from cameras and converting them into electrical impulses stored on magnetic tape. The first video tape recorder was sold in 1956. And by the 1970s, Sony began marketing the first at-home VCRs. After Ginsberg's invention of the video tape recorder, nothing was ever the same for the entertainment industry. -
The automatic coffee pot was invented by the home appliances brand Russell Hobbs. This changed the way they drank coffee in their homes forever. The automatic coffee brewing machine brewed coffee to the precise strength required by cycling the brew through the coffee grinds using gravity.
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The DEUCE is a commercial version of Alan Turing's Pilot ACE. The DEUCE is the Digital Electronic Universal Computing Engine. The DEUCE was mostly used for science and engineering problems and few commercial applications. -
First ever wireless remote was developed by Robert Adler in 1956. It used ultrasound to change channels and the volume of a tv. The first ever remote was connected to the television by a wire. This invention still to this day affects our world now. The development of the remote in the 1950s added to the remotes we now use today. -
Doug Ross wrote a memo that advocated direct access in February about the direct input of keyboard into a computer. Ross contended that an electrically controlled typewriter connected to an MIT computer could function as a keyboard input device and this was experimented 5 months later on the MIT whirlwind computer confirmed how useful and convenient a keyboard input device could be. This went on to change the development of computers and the use of them and keyboards.
