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The first television system broadcast was invented by Philo Farnsworth on September 7th, 1927. The press was presented with this scientific breakthrough and it even headlined a few major nationwide papers. -
The American Galvin Manufacturing Corporation marketed a Motorola branded radio receiver for $130. -
The first type of dialyzer, then called the artificial kidney, was built in by Dutch physician Willem Kolff. He first got the idea of developing a machine to clean the blood after watching a patient suffer from kidney failure. -
The first charge card was issued by Franklin's National Bank, for the term “Credit Card” by gas station owners who invented the first pump that could accept cards. -
Senator Rankin Fite completed the first 9-1-1 call made in the United States in Haleyville, Alabama. The digits "911" were chosen because it was easy to remember and served both parties. -
Damadian invented the MRI as a professor at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center. He was using NMR technologies to study halophiles. He realized that this technology could be used to determine differences in cells. -
Sony and Philips design the first digital audio disc. The Sony CDP-101, was the world's first commercially released compact disc player. Unlike early LaserDisc players, first CD players already used laser diodes instead of larger helium-neon lasers. -
The name Google came from a mathematics word called googol, which in turn was introduced when Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergei Brin were working from their dorm rooms, they built a search engine that used links to determine the importance of individual pages on the World Wide Web. -
The invention of the USB flash drive was designed by Israeli company M-Systems. Three employees of M-Systems, Amir Ban, Dov Moran, and Oron Ogdan engineered the first thumb drive and were granted a U.S. patent for it in late 2000. -
The ipad was announced and unveiled in 2010, by Steve Jobs at an Apple press event. The iPad is a small tablet computer and laptop but larger than a smartphone. It has a multiple touch interface, use two or more fingers to do certain things.