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Magazines
Edward Cave published a periodical called The Gentleman's Magazine. He invented the word "magazine" from the Arabic word makhazin, which meant storehouse. -
Computers
English mathematician Charles Babbage conceives of a steam-driven calculating machine that would be able to compute tables of numbers called the ENIAC -
Telegraph
Invented by Samuel Morse. It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations. -
Photography
The first photographic camera developed for commercial manufacture was a daguerreotype camera, built by Alphonse Giroux -
Radio
First edition of radio created by Guglielmo Marconi, an Italian inventor. -
Television
The world's first electronic television was created by a 21 year old inventor named Philo Taylor Farnsworth. That inventor lived in a house without electricity until he was age 14. -
Mobile Phones
Invented by Martin Cooper an employee of Motorola. The phone weighed over a kilogram and was affectionately known as The Brick. -
WiFi
Dr. O'Sullivan, an Australian inventor found WiFi. It is the same wireless network technology that allows our phones, computers and other technologies to connect to the internet reliably and at fast speeds. -
FaceBook
social media website Mark Zuckerberg built in order to connect Harvard students with one another -
YouTube
registered by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, three former employees of the American e-commerce company PayPal.
