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Credit Card
Created by Ralph Schnieder. This addition to the world allowed people to buy things on credit with ease of a card. Before this id, billing information, and terms of payment would have had to been filled out every time. The first version of this was introduced into diners to pay resturant bills. 'Diners Club' business would pay the restuarant, then the people would pay back their credit to the 'Diners Club'. -
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Inventions from 1950-1969
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Power Steering
With the advencements in engineering, hydrolics were put into car steering to make driving them more efficient. These mechanisms made things like steering and parking 80% easier. With the efforts of the Chrysler Fire Power engine 4/5 of the work is already done. -
Video Tape Recorder
Charles Ginsburgh who worked for Ampex, lead his team to create the first broadcast-quality video tape recorder, which in turn revolutionized the viewing experience of people who were watching tv. These retailed at $50 000.00 at first -
Hydrogen Bomb
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In 1939, to sieze the Nazi's of their thunderous reigh over most of Eurpoe, American Edward teller and his team of scientists had the idea for a thermonuclear weapon. They worked to create the hydrogen bomb in 1952, but had no use for it seeing as the Nazi forces had previously surrendered -
Blackbox Flight Recorder
This tool would record and store hours of speech and as well as flight instrumental readings. Ultimetly this would allow people to understand what went wrong when a plane crash occured, and opened doors to figure out how to stop more crashes from happening. -
Photovoltaic Cell
This scientific break through started the first solar modernization into energy storing machines. The beginning of solar cell recognition started in 1839. -
Computer Hard Disk
A device used for storing and retrieving digital infrom, primarily computer data. Having data backed up on a seperate disk ensured that if a crash happened, your info would be safe. -
Integrated Circuit
Created by Jack Kilby, this allowed for the ability to have multiple electric elements running on the same closed circuit at the same time. -
Space War
videoThis was the first computer game, starting the world on their advancements in computer gaming, If it wasn't for space wars, there would be no video games now. -
Handheld Calculator
Invented by Texas Instruments, their team took the computer generated calculator and took it to the next level by having it portable and handheld. -
Computer Mouse
videoAdding the cursor to the screen of a computer needed a way to be controlled. So Englebart lead a team to create the first wooden mouse, which would have a sensor on it which to be tracked by the cursor on the screen.
