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A barcode is a machine-readable representation of information in a visual format on a surface. Originally barcodes stored data in the widths and spacings of printed parallel lines, but today they also come in patterns of dots, concentric circles, and hidden in images.
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Optical Fiber is a transparent thin fiber usually made of glass or plastic. It is used for transmitting light. Fibers are generally used in pairs, with one fiber of the pair carrying a signal in each direction.
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The USSR launched into space the first artificial satellite named Sputnik. Sputnik was the first artificial satellite to be put into Earth's orbit.
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In response to Sputnik, the U.S. launched its first orbiting satellite, Explorer I. This is the first spacecraft ever to return scientific data from space.
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The Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) twas established to rapidly develop a variety of technologies for the U.S. Department of Defense. The ARPA is the single most influential agency in the history of computer development in the United States
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The modern day snowmobile was designed by Joseph-Armand Bombardier. He is considered the father of snowmobiling for the production and marketing of the Ski-Doo snowmobile . He was granted a Canadian patent in 1960 and a United States patent in 1962 for his snowmobile.
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Theodore Maiman, a physicist at the Hughes Research Labs in California, produced the 1st working laser
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The Philips Company of the Netherlands invented and released the first compact audio-cassette. The consumer's demand for blank tape used for personal music-recording was unanticipated by Philips.
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BASIC (standing for Beginner's All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) was written at Dartmouth College. Mathematicians John George Kemeny and Tom Kurtzas wrote the program as a teaching tool for undergraduates. BASIC has been one of the most commonly used computer programming languages. Its popularity was spread by both Paul Allen and William Gates.
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Nine years after its formation, the ARPA hosts a study on “cooperative network of time–sharing computers.” Shortly thereafter, two computers, one from the MIT Lincoln Lab and one from the System Development Corporation (SDC), are successfully connected with a dedicated 1200bps phone line. A third computer, at ARPA, is added to form “The Experimental Network.”
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The compact disc was invented by James Russell. He granted a total of 22 patents for various elements of his compact disk system. However, the compact disk did not become popular until it was mass manufactured by Philips in 1980.
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The primary objective of Apollo 11 was to complete a national goal of performing a lunar landing and returning to Earth.Additional flight objectives included scientific exploration of the moon; deployment of a television camera to transmit signals to Earth; and deployment of a solar wind composition experiment, seismic experiment package and a Laser Ranging Retroreflector.
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IBM introduced the first "memory disk" as it was called then. The nickname "floppy" came from the disk's flexibility. Because of its portability the floppy disk was considered a revolutionary device in the "History of Computers."
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A camcorder is a portable electronic device for recording video images and audio onto a storage device. The camcorder contains both camera and recorder in one unit.
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IBM introduced the "Personal Computer" complete with a brand new operating system from Microsoft, a 16-bit computer operating system called MS-DOS 1.0.
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The original Macintosh computer is the Macintosh 128. It was released as the "Apple Macintosh." The beige computer included a 9 inch monitor, a keyboard and a mouse. It sold for $2,495.
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Microsoft Windows is a series of graphical interface operating systems . It was developed, marketed, and sold by Microsoft. Microsoft introduced the Windows operating environment as an add-on to MS-DOS. Windows was developed in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces (GUIs). Microsoft Windows would eventually dominate the world's personal computer market
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The original Pentium Processor was introduced by Intel. It was the company's first P5-based microprocessor. The Pentium brand was highly successful . It would continue through several generations of high-end processors.
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Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems. It is a general purpose, object-oriented language. Java is one of the most popular programming languages currently in use. It has a reported 10 million users.
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Apple Computers publicly announced their portable music digital player, iPods can serve as external data storage devices. Storage capacity varies by model, ranging from 2 GB for the iPod shuffle to 160 GB for the iPod classic. All of the models have been redesigned multiple times since their introduction.
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The iPhone is a line of Internet and multimedia-enabled smartphones designed and marketed by Apple Inc. It is a combination camera phone, PDA, multimedia player, as well as a wireless communication device. The iPhone was conceived of and developed by Steve Jobs.
