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The earliest Greek known to have made a map of the world was Anaximander.
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The first printed weekly newspaper to be published in Antwerp was called Relation. Johann Carolus was the publisher of the Relation.
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Italian innovator Antonio Meucc is credited with inventing the first basic phone in 1849, and Frenchman Charles Bourseul devised a phone in 1854, Alexander Graham Bell won the first U.S. patent for the device in 1876.
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Lateral-cut disc records were developed in the United States by Emile Berliner.
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Invented by William Gray and Developed by George A. Long, was .
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In 1889 or 1890, Dickson filmed his first experimental Kinetoscope trial or test film, Monkeyshine in the United States.But Eadweard Muybridge invented film.
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Ampex introduced the Quadruplex videotape professional broadcast standard format with its Ampex VRX-1000 in 1956. It became the world's first commercially successful videotape recorder using two-inch (5.1 cm) wide tape.
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IBM invented floppies.
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The first Blockbuster video-rental store opens, in Dallas, Texas.
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One of the first Personal Digital Assistant devices, that phrase was originally coined by Apple CEO John Sculley for the Newton.
