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The first jukebox in history looked nothing like the jukeboxes we're familiar with today. On November 23, 1889, inventor Louis Glass installed a music machine in a corner of the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco. The machine was an Edison phonograph modified with a coin slot and installed inside an oak cabinet. -
The first instant camera was invented by Samuel Shlafrock in 1923. the camera consisted of a camera and a portable darkroom. The modern camera however was created by Edwin Land in 1948. -
Just as the Great Depression was getting underway, in 1930, brothers Paul and Joseph Galvin developed the first commercially successful automobile radio. They named it the “Motorola.” At $130 (equivalent to about $2,000 today), it was shockingly expensive. -
on August 8, 1940, the decade most popular movie Boom Town was released and became a smash hit. -
The toy was named Mr. Potato Head and went into production on May 1, 1952. The original set cost $0.98, and included toy hands, feet, ears, two mouths, two pairs of eyes, four noses, three hats, eyeglasses, a pipe, and eight felt pieces resembling facial hair. -
Edward Craven-Walker was the inventor of lava lamps. He launched the first lava lamp, the Astro, in 1963 to instant and enduring popularity giving everyone something to talk about -
The first of Sony's iconic portable cassette tape players went on sale on July 1st, back in 1979 for $150. it is believed the idea came from Sony co-founder Masaru Ibuka when he asked for a way to listen to opera in a more portable way than Sony's existing TC-D5 cassette players. -
Apple proved far more successful when it introduced the Macintosh in January 1984, with a cool television advertisement during the Superbowl. -
On March 31, 1997, digital video disc video players were first released for sale in the United States. -
in 2003, Harvard sophomore, Mark Zuckerberg launches Facemash, a social media website he had built in order to connect Harvard students with one another.FaceMash was short-lived but popular, leading Zuckerberg to release Facebook a year later. -
Kevin Systrom's photograph of a stray dog sitting near a taco stand in Mexico is the first image to ever be shared on Instagram. The app's co-founder captioned it 'test', and uploaded it a few months before his idea was launched to the public on October 6 2010.