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Unique way of printing with block-shaped stamps
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Johannes Gutenberg invented the most convenient way to mass print the world had seen yet
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The first photo or at least the oldest surviving one is of a rooftop scene taken from a top window
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The oldest surviving silent film is the Roundhay Garden Scene shot by inventor Louis Le Prince
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Though he did not come up with the idea, Alexander Graham Bell was the first to file a patent for the telephone
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The first edition of radio was patented in 1896 by Guglielmo Marconi
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Marconi sent the first wireless message from Flat Holm Island to Lavernock Point near Cardiff
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First feature film presented as a "talkie" was The Jazz Singer
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Paperbacks provided durable books for a cheaper price than hardback books
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In the US, Eastman Kodak's Eastmancolor was the usual choice
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The first substantial computer was the giant ENIAC machine by John W. Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert at the University of Pennsylvania
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The first small radio powered by a transistor based circuitry
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Invented by John Walson, cable was created to provide television signals to people with poor reception
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RCA's CT-100 was the first color-TV set for consumers
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The Video Cassette Recorder (VCR) made it possible to record things that were on TV
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The beginning of AI can be traced back to a philosopher's attempts to describe human thinking as a symbolic system
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Ampex introduced the first commercial video tape recorder, the desk-sized Mark IV
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During the Space Race, Russia beat the USA in releasing the first satellite, Sputnik
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The Standford Cart, first built in 1961 was the first truly autonomous car
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The HP LaserJet was the first laser printer intended for mass market sales
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The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a network of satellites that feed location data
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Motorola was the first company to mass produce the first handheld mobile devices
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One of the world's first highly successful mass-produced microcomputer products
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Ray Tomlinson is credited as the inventor of email
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Developed by Samuel Morse and other inventors, the telegraph revolutionized long-distance communication
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Charles Hull developed stereo-lithography, know as 3D printing
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Prior to the internet, various computer networks did not have a way to communicate with each other
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When the DVD player was invented, the VHS VCR was dominating the market, but soon the DVD player surpassed it in sales
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The MP3 player made listening to music easy and convenient
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YouTube was launched in 2005 by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim
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On January 9th, 2007, Steve Jobs unvieled the first handheld touch screen phone
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The first of a line of tablet computers designed and produced by Apple Incorporated.