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The first computer/calculating machine. It was made by Charles Babbage. It counts up by any number.
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Wilbur and Orville made the first powered airplane which was successful.
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The first refrigerator to see widespread use was the General Electric "Monitor-Top" refrigerator introduced in 1927
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It was made by wires and 150 electric motors. It was made by US government scientist Vannevar Bush. This was known as an analog calculator.
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The ABC was the first electric computing device. It made by John Vincent Atanasoff, he was known as the ‘Father of Computer’
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The first coloured system was invented by John Logie Baird in 1928 but in the 1940’s the TV showed 3 primary colours, red, green and blue.
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Colossus was made by Tommy Flowers and the idea was from Alan Turing. The machine was made to decode the Lorenz cipher. It helped the Allies win the world war 2 against Germany.
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The first hand held mobile phone was demonstrated by John F. Michell and Martin Cooper. The top selling mobile companies today are Apple, Nokia and samsung.
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It was one of the first personal computers, it had a desktop like screen with little picture icons.
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By 1974, Intel had launched a popular microprocessor known as the 8080 and computer hobbyists were soon building home computers around it. The first was the MITS Altair 8800, built by Ed Roberts
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This was a large computer founded by Rod Coleman, Bill Bonman and Bob Needleman
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In 1981 the 16-bit IBM PC was released. This was a small computer with a very small screen. (The Osborne 1)
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This was made by Tim-Berners Lee who was a computer scientist
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The xbox 360 is the sixth best game console in the world.
