Talking sound film | talkies | 1923 | Lee DeForest | USA
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Leica 35 film camera | single lens reflex SLR camera | 1925 | Oskar Barnack | Germany
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Audio tape recorder | magnetic tape sound | 1928 | Fritz Pfleumer | Germany
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Vinyl record | disc phonograph recording | 1932 | RCA Victor | |
Photocopying | xerography | 1937 | Chester F. Carlson | USA
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Practical ballpoint pen | ink writing made easy, inexpensive | 1938 | Lazio and Georg Biro | Hungary
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Bombe Enigma code breaker | universal Turing machine | 1940 | Alan Turing, Harold Keen | UK
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Instant Poloroid photograph | black and white, 60 second | 1946 | Edwin Herbert Land | USA
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Long playing record, 45 min | LP phonograph record | 1948 | Peter Carl Goldmark | USA
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Holography | 3-dimensional image | 1948 | Dennis Gabor | Hungary
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Magnetic tape storage 1951 Univac/IBM, USA (81)
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Universal bar code | | 1952 | N. Joseph Woodland, Bernard Silver | USA
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Computer mouse | mechanical | 1952 | Douglas Englebart | USA
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Videotape recorder | | 1953 | Norikazu Sawazaki | Japan
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Felt tip pen | Magic Marker | 1953 | Sidney Rosenthal | USA
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Fortran | computer programming language | 1954 | John Backus, IBM | USA
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Hard drive memory | RAMAC 305 | 1956 | Reynold B. Johnson , IBM | USA
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Rolodex | rotary card filing system | 1956 | Hildaur L. Neilsen, Arnold Neustadter | USA
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Card magnetic stripe | | 1958 | Forrest Parry | USA
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Personal computer | single user | 1958 | IBM | USA
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Optical disc | | 1961 | David Paul Gregg, James Russell | USA
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Audio cassette tape | | 1962 | Phillips | Netherlands
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Color Polaroid photograph | instant color picture | 1963 | Edwin Herbert Land | USA
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BASIC language | beginner's all purpose symbolic instruction code | 1964 | John Kemeny, Tom Kurtz | USA
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8 track tape | | 1964 | Bill Lear | USA
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CD-ROM | compact disc, read only memory | 1966 | James T. Russell | USA
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Hypertext | language of the internet | 1968 | Ted Nelson, Andries van Dam | USA
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Graphical user interface | | 1968 | Douglas Englebart | USA
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Microprocessor chip in credit card | improved security of data | 1968 | Helmut Grottup, Jurgen Dethloff | Germany
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RAM | random access memory | 1968 | Robert Dennard | USA
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ARAPANET | Dept of Defense | 1969 | Advanced Research Projects Agency | USA
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E book | electronic book | 1969 | Alan Kay | USA
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Pascal programming language | | 1970 | Niklaus Wirth | Switzerland
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Video cassette recorder | VCR | 1970 | Charkes Paulson Ginsburg | USA
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Floppy disc memory | | 1971 | David L. Noble, IBM | USA
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Single chip microprocessor, Intel 4004 | 90,000 operations/second | 1971 | Federico Fagin, Ted Hoff | USA
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Universal product code | UPC | 1971 | George Laverer | USA
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Internet protocol | TCP/IP | 1973 | Vinton Cerf, Robert E. Kahn | USA
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Voicemail | | 1973 | Scott A. Jones | USA
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Digital camera | | 1975 | Steven Sasson Kodak | USA
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Laptop computer, notebook | portable computer | 1975 | IBM, Compaq | USA
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Cray supercomputer | | 1976 | Seymour Cray | USA
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Apple II computer | | 1976 | Steve Wozniak | USA
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Optical mouse | LED | 1980 | Steve Kirsch, Richard F. Lyon | USA
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Flash memory | | 1980 | Fujio Masuoka, Toshiba | USA
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Camcorder | video recorder | 1983 | Jerome Lemelson, SONY | Japan
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Microsoft Word | digital documents | 1983 | Charles Simonyi, Richard Brodie | USA
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Cloud storage, business, government | off site data storage | 1983 | Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider | USA
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Apple Macintosh | mouse driven with graphic user interface | 1984 | Steve Jobs et al. | USA
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C++ language computer programming | | 1985 | Bjarne Stroustrup | Denmark
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Windows OS | operating system for computers | 1985 | Bill Gates, Microsoft | USA
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Touch pad | | 1988 | George Gerpheide | USA
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