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Galileo Galilei designs a basic thermometer
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Fax Machine.
Scotsman Alexander Bain invents a primitive fax machine based on chemical technology.
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Fax Machine
Italian Giovanni Caselli develops a mechanical fax machine called the pantelegraph.
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Keyboard
Christopher Latham Sholes invents the modern typewriter and QWERTY keyboard.
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Radio Waves
Guglielmo Marconi sends radio-wave signals across the Atlantic Ocean from England to Canada.
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Modern TV
Philo T. Farnsworth invents modern electronic television.
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Microwaves
Percy Spencer accidentally discovers how to cook with microwaves, inadvertently inventing the microwave oven.
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Sputnik
Soviet Union (Russia and her allies) launch the Sputnik space satellite.
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Computer Design System
IBM and General Motors develop Design Augmented by Computers-1 (DAC-1), the first computer-aided design (CAD) system.
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First microprocesser computer
Ted Hoff builds the first single-chip computer or microprocessor.
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Apple
Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs launch the Apple I: one of the world's first personal home computers.
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WIFI
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Supercomputers
Supercomputers (the world's fastest computers) are now a mere 30 times less powerful than human brains.
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