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The first wireless remote, designed by Zenith's Eugene Polley, is essentially a flashlight.
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Spencer patents a "radar range" that cooks with high-frequency radio waves.
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The Boeing 707-120 debuts as the world's first successful commercial jet airliner, ushering in the era of accessible mass air travel.
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Black and Decker releases its first cordless drill.
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The Unimate, the first programmable industrial robot, is installed on a General Motors assembly line in New Jersey.
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Telstar is launched as the first "active" communications satellite—active as in amplifying and retransmitting incoming signals
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The programmers write Spacewar; 43 years later 89 percent of school-age kids own video games.
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"I don't know why we call it a mouse. It started that way, and we never changed it." —Doug Engelbart, engineer, Stanford Research Institute, 1968
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Robert Moog develops the first electronic synthesizer to make the leap from machine to musical instrument
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Randolph Smith and Kenneth House patent a battery-powered smoke detector for home use.
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James Russell, a scientist with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, invents the first digital-to-optical recording and playback s
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Chrysler paves the way for the era of electronic—rather than mechanical—advances in automobiles with the electronic ignition.
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in the 1975,Ed Roberts coined the term personal computer when he introduced the Altair 8800
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The first satellite in the modern Navstar Global Positioning System (GPS) is launched.
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"This is the product that will satisfy those young people who want to listen to music all day." —Akio Morita, Sony Chairman, February 1979
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Depending on who you ask, the MP3 is either the end of civilization (record companies) or the dawn of a new world