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The scheduled broadcast was made by Pittsburgh's Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. This broadcast was used to announce the live results of the Presidential Election, which was between Warren G. Harding and James Cox. -
The first car radio was invented by Paul Galvin and Jim Fosgate, and was picked up by the company Heinaphone Corp.This company eventually became Philco and was later acquired by Philips. -
It was broadcasted by Philo Farnsworth, and later that year, he patented his technology and his idea. -
Harold Edgerton was the person to invent this type of photography. Stop action photography also ended up paving the way for modern types of ultra-speed photography. -
Edwin H. Land was not only the person to invent the polaroid camera, but he was the first person to make a camera that could develop pictures instantly and without a dark room. -
The inventor, John Vincent Atanasoff, obviously paved the way for countless modern technologies. He also used to be a professor of mathematics, physics, and electrical engineering at Iowa State. -
Colour television was invented by John Logie Bard. Sadly, colour television wasn't available commercially for another ten years, and most TV stations didn't fully change to colour until at least the 70's. -
The inventor of the widescreen movie was Spyros Skouras, and the first widescreen movies made were Henry Koster's The Robe (1953) and How to Marry a Millionaire (1953). -
This system was named Quadruplex videotape, and it was produced by Ampex. This video camera was the first step into video recording at home, and was a huge stepping stone for what we have today. -
This game was similar to the classic tennis game we still ply today, and was invented by William Higinbotham. -
This was considered a very experimental technology at the time, even though to us it seems very inefficient and clunky, and it was created by Douglas Englebart. The mouse also paved the way for other tech add-ons in later years. -
The inventor of the optical disc (or CD, as most people call it), David Paul Gregg, was a huge stepping point for portable music and entertainment, kind of like what we have now. -
It was invented by John Blankenbaker, produced by a small firm called MITS, used Intel Corporation's 8080 microprocessor and was named the Altair. -
The inventor of the first still instant camera, Steven Sasson, is still alive to this day, and is an electrical engineer in New York. -
Started by Jef Raskin and taken over by Steve Jobs, the first macintosh computer kicked off an era of a world full of Apple products. It was also the first mass-marketed all-in-one computer (graphic user interface, built-in screen and mouse) -
The inventor of the WWW, Tim Berners-Lee, originally intended it to be a document management system when he invented it at CERN. Now it is the basis of almost all websites. -
Sent by Neil Papworth, the first SMS message was sent in December and simply read "Merry Christmas". This invention was huge, started an era of texting, and made a technology popular that we still use today. -
Amazon was founded by the world-famous Jeff Bezos, in Bellevue, Washington, United States. This online company started an era of online shopping and digital goods. -
Sergey Brin and Larry Page founded Google in Menlo Park, California, United States. This company basically made the internet famous, creating a software and a search engine so strong that it is still used today. -
The first ever smartphone was manufactured by Blackberry and paved the way for the next 20 years to be fully dependent on cell phones and instant communication. Fun Fact: My dad was working at Blackberry when this was released! -
The first ever iPhone was unveiled at the Macworld convention in San Francisco. Manufactured by Apple, the iPhone is now so popular that 23.4% of people worldwide have one. -
This system was invented by Andy Rubin, Nick Sears, and Rich Miner. Although Apple has taken over in the cell phone industry, Android systems are still very used around the world -
Siri was invented by Adam Cheyer, and in my opinion, is one of the most useful features on an iPhone that Apple has ever released. -
Although Alexa (manufactured by Amazon) was a bit of a copycat, it was still a great invention for Amazon to invest in and they've sold over 100 million of them so far.