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Television
It was in 1884 that a man named Paul Nipkow figured out a way to send multiple pictures through wires, as rotating disks. But it was really first seen in 1900 World Fair in Paris. In 1950, the colour TV was releasaed. -
Polygraph Machine (Lie Detector Machine)
It was first created in 1902 by James McKenzie, but it was inadequate, inaccurate, unreliable. A more modern style lie detecting machine, in 1921, was created by John Larson. -
Smoke Detector
It was Francis Robbins Upton who provided the design of this smoke detector in 1890s, but surprisingly, he never created or shared this design. George Andrew Darby, then, created the first heat and smoke detector in 1902. Its technology grows and grows, but even in 1963, the smoke detector did not have the public exposure. If we're talking about the "home" smoke detector, then it was Duane Persall, along with the collaborator Stanley Bennett, who published this in 1968. -
First Computer
This first computer was invented by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly. It was the size of a huge room. It was first contructed in 1943 and completed in 1946. It was called ENIAC. -
Heart-Lung Machine
William Johan "Pim" Kolf started researching on making heart-lung machine and an artificial heart in 1947. The heart-lung machine was, then, created in 1956. The first artificial heart was implanted on the dog, and it survived for approximately 90 minutes. Dr. Christiaan Barnard implanted it on the first patient, and he/she lived for 18 days. The times were slowly expanding as technology grew. And an approved Total Artificial Heart was created in 2004. -
Video Games Console
Video Games Console was created in 1968, by Ralph Baer. At the time, this was an entertainment to kids. The code name, at the time, was "The Brown Box." Ralph Baer is now known as the Father of Video Games. -
The Internet
J. C. R Licklider discussed about the concept of the "Galactic Network" in 1962. The concept was, then, being created in 1966 by Robert. At the time, this computer network concept was put together in the name of ARPANET. And this invention was experimented successfully in the late 1969. -
Digital Camera
Eugene F. Lally was the first to come up with the idea of a digital camera, by using a mosaic photosensor to capture images in 1962. But the idea was yet to be established until 1975, when an Eastman-Kodak engineer Steven Sasson invented the first digital camera. -
MP3 Player
The German company, named Fraunhofer-Gesellshaft, created this MP3 Player. The inventors of this technology are Bernhard Grill, Karl-Heinz Brandenburg, Thomas Sporer, Bernd Kurten. and Ernst Eberlein. MP3 Player was first inveting in 1989 and finished in 1997. -
Flash Drive
USB (Universal Serial Bus) was invented by Amir Ban, Dov Moran, and Oron Ogdan. It had the storage capacity of eight Megabytes.
