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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

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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.

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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

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ENIAC first used• Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer

• Developed by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert

COST$500,000

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Computer Modem• Used to communicate

data over the public switched telephone network or PSTN.

• Modem: Modulation+Demodulation

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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'

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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.

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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