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Battery
Allesandro Volta invents the Voltaic Pile a.k.a. the first battery. -
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Technology
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Power Station
First commercial power station opens in San Francisco, uses Charles Brush generator and arc lights. First commercial arc lighting system installed, Cleveland, Ohio. -
General Electric
General Electric Company formed by the merger of Thomson-Houston and Edison General Electric. -
Wireless Communication
Wireless communication invented by Nikola Tesla -
Television
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 -
Digital Computer
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. -
Polaroid camera
Dr. Edwin H. Land introduces a new camera that can produce a developed photographic image in sixty seconds. -
First operating system
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. -
Pong
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. -
Microsoft
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 -
Mac
Apple Mac was introduced. This PC was highly proprietary. The design and operating systems were control by Apple.
