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Wireless communications
In 1901 transoceanic transmission and reception of radio waves by Guglielmo Marconi anticipates the possibilities of radio that will spread throughout the world two decades later; then new technical developments will give radio transmissions social unsuspected scope. -
Automobile Industry
In 1908 in the US the entrepreneur Henry Ford begins manufacturing the Model T automobile, the first mass-produced in the world. Five years later he invented the mechanized assembly line for automobile plant; as demand is exceeded its production possibilities. -
programmable calculator
In 1938 the German engineer Konrad Zuse designed exclusively mechanical components, the V1 prototype, the first binary programmable calculator, initially intended for engineering calculations. -
First laser and industrial robots
In 1960 Theodore Maiman built in the US. the first optical laser which quickly spread as a tool for numerous research
In this year the first industrial robot is applied in a Ford Motors plant in the US -
IBM: personal computers and robots
In 1981 IBM Corporation presents its first personal computers and a year later a robot called RS-l for programmable industrial assembly lines using the language of AML robot, also developed by IBM.
