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Home VCR
Home VCR records and playing back video and audio programming from television onto cassettes containing magnetic tape. This type of saving media is later seen in VHS and DVR, serving as the first ways of saving media and is accessible to all homes to save footage. It was also the first for home theaters as -
Charles Paulson Ginsburg
Inventor of the home VCR -
Floppy disk
A physical storage unit that is a thin plastic disk coated with magnetic material. Floppy disks allow people at home to load operating systems as well as other programs into their home and personal computer. -
IBM engineers led by Alan Shugart
IMB invented the Floppy disk -
Email (electronic mail)
Electric mail is a means of digital communication via a network. Email reduced the number of traditional mail and is still used to this day. Email serves to be cheap, faster, accessible, and easily replicated than traditional mail. -
V.A Shiva Ayyadurai and Raymond Samuel Tomlinson
It is debated who invented Email. For the sake of this presentation I will credit both, but upload Tomlinson's image -
Pong
Pong is a table tennis arcade video game. Pong, while not being the first video game, was the first video game to be commercially successful. It created a new industry and market -
Atari/ Allan Alcorn
Atari released the game but it was programmed by Allan Alcorn -
Motorola DynaTAC 8000X
Motorola was the first wireless and portable cell phone. Mobile phones are used in the current day and are practically everywhere. It was the start for easier communications. -
John F. Mitchell and Martin Cooper
Mitchell and Cooper worked on the Motorola, but for the sake of this presentation I will show Cooper's image -
MRI scanner
Magnetic resonance imaging is a device used in the medical field to obtain images with the usage of radiology. MRI scanners are still used in modern medicine and serve to be helpful for doctors when diagnosing diseases and conditions because of their ability to differentiate better between fat, water, muscle, and other soft tissue than CT scanner -
Raymond Damadian
Inventor of the MRI Scanner