Technology History Project

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  • Hair Iron

    Hair Iron

    WikipediaA hair iron or hair tong is a tool used to change the structure of the hair using heat. There are three general kinds: curling irons, used to make the hair curly, straightening irons, commonly called straighteners or flat irons, used to straighten the hair, and crimping irons, used to create crimps of the desired size in the hair.
    Date not present
  • ENIAC invented

    ENIAC invented

    Wikipedia The ENIAC was the first digital computer and cost almost $500,000. The machine was the size of a small gym and contained over 17,000 vacum tubes.
  • Mobile Phones

    Mobile Phones

    AboutA type of wireless communication that is most familiar to mobile phone users. Its called 'celluar' because the system uses many base stations to divide a service area into multiple 'cells'.
  • Era 1101 drum Memory

    Era 1101 drum Memory

    Computer HistoryEngineering Research Associates of Minneapolis built the ERA 1101, the first commercially produced computer; the company´s first customer was the U.S. Navy. It held 1 million bits on its magnetic drum, the earliest magnetic storage devices. Drums registered information as magnetic pulses in tracks around a metal cylinder. Read/write heads both recorded and recovered the data. Drums eventually stored as many as 4,000 words and retrieved any one of them in as little as five-thousandths of a second
  • UNIVAC Computers

    UNIVAC Computers

    InventorsThe Universal Automatic Computer or UNIVAC was a computer milestone acheieved.
  • IBM 701

    IBM 701

    Computer HistoryIBM shipped its first electronic computer, the 701. During three years of production, IBM sold 19 machines to research laboratories, aircraft companies, and the federal government.
  • Colored Television

    Colored Television

    WikipediaIn its most basic form, a color broadcast can be created by broadcasting three monochrome images, one each in the three colors of red, green and blue (RGB). When displayed together or in rapid succession, these images will blend together to produce a full color image as seen by the viewer.
  • VCR

    VCR

    Wikipedia Is an electro-mechanical device that records analog audio and analog video from broadcast television on a removable, magnetic tape videocassette, so that the images and sound can be played back at a more convenient time.
    This use of a VCR is commonly referred to as television program Timeshifting.
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  • IBM 5100

    IBM 5100

    Life Science
    It became the first commercially available portable computer.
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  • Ethernet

    Ethernet

    WikipediaThe Ethernet standards comprise several wiring and sgnaling variants of the OSI physical layer in use with Ethernet. (date not specified)
  • Atari

    Atari

    Wikipedia Atari (from a Japanese verb meaning "to hit the target") is a corporate and brand name owned by several entities
  • Google Chrome

    Google Chrome

    Google Found it. It is a better way to use the internet.
  • iPod Shuffle

    Wikipedia The first-generation iPod Shuffle weighed 0.78 ounces (22 g) and was designed to be easily loaded with a selection of songs and to play them in random order.
  • Iphone

    Iphone

    WikipediaIt is used to shoot video, use the internet. and recieves visual voicemail. Other function video games, reference works, GPS naviagation, social networking.
  • First Apple Ipad

    First Apple Ipad

    Apple A revolutionary device for browsing the web, reading and sendung email, enjoying photos watching videos, listening to music, playing games, reading e-books and much more. Ipads responsice high- resoultion Multi-Touch display let userd physically interact with application and content.