breakthrough in technology
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Breakthrough in Technology
10th Mar, 1876
12th Dec, 1896
14th Feb, 1946
3rd May, 1958
2nd Nov, 1966
3rd May, 1971
3rd Oct, 1973
3rd May, 1976
3rd Sep, 1976
12th Aug, 1981
17th Feb, 1994
3rd May, 1995
1st Jan, 2000
Jan 9th, 2007
Date Breakthrough10th march 1876 First Telephone12th Dec. 1896 First Radio3rd October 1973 First Cellphone12th August 1981 First PC17th February 1994 First Camera1st January 2000 PSP
TIME LINE OF EVENTS
First Practical Telephone
Inventor : Alexender Graham Bell patented in January 30, 1877Rumor has it that it was actually invented by Antonio Meucci in 1857, but Bell was the one to create the first practical phone.
First Radio• Wireless communication• Inventor : Guglielmo
Marconi • FACT:• Marconi’s first radio
transmissions, in 1896, were coded signals that were transmitted only about a mile (1,6 km) far
• Indian scientist J.C. Bose demonstrated the radio transmission in 1896 in Calcutta in front of the British Governor General. The transmission was over a distance of three miles
ENIAC first used• Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer
• Developed by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert
COST$500,000
Computer Modem• Used to communicate
data over the public switched telephone network or PSTN.
• Modem: Modulation+Demodulation
First Color Television • General Electric's Porta Color
television introduced in the United States.
• Firstly introduced in 1966 and produced until 1978.
• FACT:– 11 inch portable color receiver– Weight of only 24 pounds(10
kg). – At the peak of demand, 2000
sets were produced a day.
First hard drive: Space>1GB• The first hard drive to
have more than 1 GB in capacity was the IBM 3380 in 1980 (it could store 2.52 GB).
• FACT:– It was the size of a
refrigerator, weighed 550 pounds (250 kg)
– Price: $81,000 to $142,400
First Cell phone• Invented by Martin
Cooper who worked for Motorola at the time.
• FACT:– The weight: About the
same as a bag of sugar (2lb).
– Talk Time: 30 minutes – CHARGING: 10 hours to
charge
First VHS• Video Home System• Invented by the
Japanese company JVC and released in 1976.
• FACTS:– Tape Width: 12.70 mm– Tape Speed: 3.335 cm/s– Record Time: 6 hrs-Thin
tape, 3hrs- Normal Tape
IBM 5150 PC Release
• Created by engineers and designer in the IBM Entry System Division in Boca Raton, Florida.
• One of IBM's first personal computers.• Discontinued in April 2nd, 1987.• Facts :• Supported only 64K
of RAM memory on motherboard
• System for home or school - 64Kb memory , 1 diskette drive and display, was priced at $3,000.
First Digital Camera• World’s first digital camera was
developed by Kodak
• Kodak must be kicking themselves since 1975, since they had developed the world’s first digital camera, way before others began to even think of the concept, in 1975.
• The camera would use up 16 batteries.
• Take a photograph of 0.01 megapixels that would then write on a tape attached to the device, only to play it on a television screen.
First DVD
• For the DVD to exist, the Multimedia Comapact Disk and the Super Density Disk were joined.
• It is an optical disk storage with a better audio-visual capacity than the CD
• FACT:– The first commercial CD album was released in Japan, in October 1982. It
was Billy Joel with '52nd Street'
Playstation 1• The first Playstation was
invented by Sony in 2000.
Facts :Started ‘ video game CD-ROM’ revolution. had it not been a contract dispute between Nintendo and Sony ,it would have been released by Nintendo as an add-on to their Super Nintendo console.
iphone
• The Iphone was released by Apple on January 9, 2007
• Fact :First iphone was developed in 1983 !
• It took over 200 patents and 156 suppliers across three continents to make the iPhone