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The telegraph and the telephone has major impacts on businesses and global communication. As the idea of cellular networks was developed at Bell Labs. Motorola invented the first telephone in 1973. Cellular phones allow us to communicate at any time with anyone on the go. and also browse the internet. Cell networks were launched around the world in the early 1980s and Motorola’s phone became a symbol of wealth and the arrival of the future. The cell phone has irreversibly changed how we communicate, both in person relationships and business.

The Micro-computing revolution was launched with the Altair advertisement in popular electronics in 1975. Bill Gates got into programming as a teenager, and dropped out of Harvard to develop BASIC for the Altair. He Co-founded Microsoft in 1976 which developed Windows and the World’s most popular office software. Gates kept Microsoft on its mission and hired his old friend Steve Ballmer who eventually took over for Bill as CEO. Bill Gates, through Microsoft, helped bring computing and the internet to the mainstream.

VCR and VHS: The early years of the TV technology had no way for consumers to record their favorite shows. the VCR was invented by JVC in 1977 after they developed the VHS format, which competed with Sony’s Beta max format. The VCR enables recording, time-shifting, and watching one show while recording another at the same time. The VCR won the format wars because it gave the consumer longer recording time than Beta max did. VHS was an important consumer technology for over 25 years until being displaced by DVD and DVRs,

The discovery of Quantum physics in 1900 led Einstein to extend if and predict the possibility of laser light. Charles towers invented the laser at Bell Labs in 1958 after inventing the maser. Laser light is coherent,focused, one wavelength, and can be used for cutting or information transmission. Bell labs and other companies began building their own lasers for various purposes. Lasers enabled barcode scanners at supermarkets, data, audio and visual media like CDs and DVDs.

Transistor: The vacuum tube triodes were signal amplifiers, but they consumed a lot of power and were unreliable. Bardeen, Shockley, and Brattain invented the transistor at Bell Labs in 1947. Its a solid-state triode that amplifies signals, processes digital [binary] logic, and can be densely packed into very small areas. billions of transistor radios were sold after being introduced in the 1950s, which led to new computers. the transistor helped bring about a massive technology and liberty revolution in our society in just 50 years,

FM Radio: AM radio was a major advancement in mass communications, but it suffered from a lot of noise. Edwin Armstrong Invented wide band FM radio in 1933 after years of developing new radio receivers. FM radio has a good range at reasonable power levels, sounds great, and is more resistant to noise than AM. RCA rejected the immediate transition to FM, so Armstrong funded his own work. FM radio forever altered music by helping to create new forms of music and exposing older forms to wider audiences, and it helped create conservative talk radio.

Slavery began in colonial America and ended after civil war in the 1860s. George Washington Carver was born a slave, but received a college education and worked for Booker T. Washington. He pioneered crop rotation and promoted peanuts as a crop in the South as an alternative to cotton. His research made him influential, culminating with his testimony before congress in 1921. He didn’t let his rough beginnings or later discrimination hold him back from achieving much.

The model t: The automobile industry had developed since the 1870s but the cars were too expensive for average people. Ford invented the model T in 1908 by perfecting the assembly line process and interchangeable parts. The model T became the worlds first truly affordable mass produced car, giving families mobile freedom. Ford cars were so cheap and benefit laden they sold themselves by word of mouth. Ford changed the world and increased our independence, and he also helped create the grilling industry.

Semi-automatic shotgun: Mormonism was founded by Joseph Smith in New York in the 1820s, but most moved to Utah in 1844 with Brigham Young. John Browning, a Mormon, left Winchester and invented the Semi-Automatic Shotgun in 1898. The Semi-Automatic shotgun automatically loads the next round after firing the arising round, allowing for rapid shooting. It was advertised to Hunters and sportsmen. Browning was able to develop several other guns and shape the entire firearms industry for 100 years.

The skyscraper: The skyscraper was made possible because of a combination of previous inventions that became before it. William Jenney an accomplished engineer invented the skyscraper in 1884, after noticing a bird cage . The skyscraper allows more people and businesses to occupy popular, but limited, areas. A skyscraper boom unfolded in Chicago and New York following the construction of the home insurance building in 1884, it changed the building design, how they look, accelerated the economy, and led to 9/11 and the ”War On Terror”