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Allesandro Volta invents the Voltaic Pile a.k.a. the first battery.
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First commercial power station opens in San Francisco, uses Charles Brush generator and arc lights. First commercial arc lighting system installed, Cleveland, Ohio.
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General Electric Company formed by the merger of Thomson-Houston and Edison General Electric.
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Wireless communication invented by Nikola Tesla
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Philo Farnsworth demonstrates the first television for potential investors by broadcasting the image of a dollar sign. Farnsworth receives backing and applies for a patent
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John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry of Iowa State College complete the prototype of the first digital computer. It can store data and perform addition and subtractions using binary code.
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Dr. Edwin H. Land introduces a new camera that can produce a developed photographic image in sixty seconds.
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IBM rolls out the OS/360, the first mass-produced computer operating system. Using the OS/360, all computers in the IBM 360 family could run any software program.
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Pong, one of the first mass-produced video games, has become the rage. Noland Bushnell, the 28 year-old inventor of Pong, will go on to found Atari.
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Friends Bill Gates and Paul Allen form a partnership known as Microsoft to write computer software. They sell their first software to Ed Roberts at MIT, which has produced the Altair 8800, the first microprocessor-based computer. Gates soon drops out of Harvard
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Apple Mac was introduced. This PC was highly proprietary. The design and operating systems were control by Apple.
