History of Technology By tawil10 Aug 8, 1950 Invention of the credit card Nov 6, 1951 Color television introduced in the U.S. Sep 8, 1956 Robert Adler invents Zenith Space Commander which is the first practical remote control Jan 7, 1962 AT&T launches Telstar, the first satellite to carry TV broadcasts and television broadcasts are relayed around the World. Nov 5, 1969 July 20: TV transmission from the moon watched by 600 million people Mar 9, 1976 Sony introduce Betamax, the first home video cassette recorder. Apr 28, 1980 CNN, the first all-news network, is launched by Ted Turner Sep 29, 1982 Dolby surround sound for home televisionsets is introduced. Sep 27, 1986 Super VHS is introduced Aug 10, 1988 98% of U.S. households have at least one television set. Mar 5, 1992 There are 900 million television sets in use around the world Nov 28, 1995 Kodak digital camera, DVD's Jan 25, 1998 Viagra Oct 6, 2001 Self cleaning windows Sep 7, 2005 YouTube Dec 14, 2011 50% of home TVs are color television sets.
