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Scotsman Alexander Bain invents a primitive fax machine based on chemical technology.
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Italian Giovanni Caselli develops a mechanical fax machine called the pantelegraph.
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Christopher Latham Sholes invents the modern typewriter and QWERTY keyboard.
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Guglielmo Marconi sends radio-wave signals across the Atlantic Ocean from England to Canada.
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Philo T. Farnsworth invents modern electronic television.
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Peter Goldmark pioneers color television.
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Percy Spencer accidentally discovers how to cook with microwaves, inadvertently inventing the microwave oven.
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Soviet Union (Russia and her allies) launch the Sputnik space satellite.
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IBM and General Motors develop Design Augmented by Computers-1 (DAC-1), the first computer-aided design (CAD) system.
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Ted Hoff builds the first single-chip computer or microprocessor.
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Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs launch the Apple I: one of the world's first personal home computers.
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Tim Berners-Lee invents the World Wide Web.
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Electronics companies agree to make Wi-Fi a worldwide standard for wireless Internet.
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Apple introduces a touchscreen cellphone called the iPhone.
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3D TV starts to become more widely available.
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Supercomputers (the world's fastest computers) are now a mere 30 times less powerful than human brains.
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