Technological Advances

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    Technology

  • Konrad Zuse's Z3

    Konrad Zuse builds Z1, world's first program-controlled computer.
  • Microwave Oven

    The microwave oven was invented by Percy L. Spencer
  • Mobile Phone

    Although cell phones were not sold commercially until 1983.
  • Video Tape Recorders

    Invented by Charles Ginsburg, the first video tape recorder (VTR) captured live images from television cameras.
  • Microchip

    Jack Kilby is the guy who invented the Microchip.
  • Internal Pacemaker

    It was invented by Wilson Greatbatch.
  • Video Disk

    Was invented by Steve Russel
  • Calculators

    The young French mathematician Blaise Pascal was who invented the calculator.
  • Computer Mouse

    It was invented by Douglas Engelbart.
  • Floppy Disk

    The first floppy was an 8-inch flexible plastic disk coated with magnetic iron oxide. The nickname "floppy" came from the disk's flexibility. It was invented by Alan Shugart.
  • Word Processor

    Seymour Rubenstein first started developing an early version of a word processor.
  • Laser Printer

    It was the first printer to combine laser technology and electrophotography according to IBM.
  • The first IBM-PC

    IBM-PC became the highly successful operating system that came bundled. Invented by
  • CD-ROM

    ROM means read-only memory. it was invented by James Russel.
  • Windows

    There's different versions in windows you use.
  • Java

    Java is a programming language and environment invented by James Gosling and others.
  • MP3 Player

    Frauhofer-Gesellshaft, a German company developed the MP3 technology
  • Google

    Google was invented by two Ph.D. students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, while they were studying computer science at Stanford University in California.
  • iPod

    One man that could be named for the invention the iPod is Tony Fadell.
  • YouTube

    The website invented by Jawed Karim, Steve Chen and Chad Hurley is currently one of the most famous websites in the world!
  • iphone

    t was Apple co-founder, Steve Jobs who directed Apple's engineers to develop a touch screen, mobile phone.