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The difference engine
A difference engine is an automatic mechanical calculator designed to count polynomial functions. The name comes from the method of divided differences, a way to (figure something unknown out based on things that are already known) or count functions by using a small set of polynomial coefficients -
Telegraph
a system for transmitting messages from a distance along a wire, especially one creating signals by making and breaking an electrical connection. -
Machine Guns
A machine gun is a fully automatic mounted or portable firearm, usually designed to fire bullets in quick succession from an ammunition belt -
Typewriter
an electric, electronic, or manual machine with keys for producing print-like characters one at a time on paper inserted round a roller. -
The Telephone
a system for transmitting voices over a distance using wire or radio, by converting acoustic vibrations to electrical signals. -
Escalator
An escalator is a moving staircase – a CONVEYOR transport device for carrying people between floors of a building. -
Modern Vaccum
An electrical apparatus that by means of suction collects dust and small particles from floors and other surfaces. -
Neon Lamp
A neon lamp (also neon glow lamp) is a miniature gas discharge lamp. The lamp typically consists of a small GLASS capsule that CONTAINS a mixture of neon and other gases at a low pressure and two electrodes -
Lie Detector
an instrument for determining whether a person is telling the truth by testing for physiological changes considered to be associated with lying. -
Polariod Photography
A type of Camera -
The first Jet Engine
an engine using jet propulsion for forward thrust, mainly used for aircraft. -
The ABC Computor
The Atanasoff–Berry computer (ABC) was the first automatic electronic digital computer, an early electronic digital computing device that has remained somewhat obscure. -
The Microwave Oven
A microwave oven, often colloquially shortened to microwave, is a kitchen appliance that heats food by bombarding it with electromagnetic radiation in the microwave spectrum causing polarized molecules in the food to rotate and build up thermal energy in a process known as dielectric heating -
First Digital and Prgrammable Robot
Unimate was the first industrial robot,[1] which worked on a General Motors assembly line at the Inland Fisher Guide Plant in Ewing Township, New Jersey, in 1961.[ -
Audio Cassette
a sealed plastic unit containing a length of audio tape, videotape, film, etc. wound on a pair of spools, for insertion into a recorder, playback device, or other machine. -
iPod
The iPod is a line of portable media players designed and marketed by Apple INC
