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//Dr. Roberta McKnight//
= Key Technological Advances: Business and Corporate Philosophies for Periods 1900s - 2000s = • 1903 Binney and Smith co-invent [|Crayons][|.] Crayons were used to add creativity and originality to artwork. The [|Magic Marker]is an outgrowth of the Crayons. || • 1911 Kettering invents the 1st automobile electrical ignition system. The first self starting ignition was installed in the Cadillac and eliminated hand cranking, providing efficiency in mobility. || • 1924 Dynamic[| loud speaker] invented by Rice & Kellogg became the major design for all loudspeakers. They were sold to consumers under the name of "Radiola" in 1926. || • 1934 Begun invents the first[| tape recorder] for broadcasting. His advancements in the magnetic tape field made the 3M company over a billion dollars. His first tape recorder was called the Sound Mirror. || • 1945 Vannevar Bush proposes hypertext and laid the foundation for Tim Berners-Lee and others to introduce the World Wide Web. || •1958 The computer modem was invented. Modems were used to communicate data over the public switched telephone network. Fax machines carried some our first modems. The word modem comes from two words, modulator and demodulator. || • 1965 Compact Disk invented by Russell. The CD (compact disk) is a popular digital storage media, but did not become popular until Phillips manufactured it in 1980. || • 1975 Laser printer was invented by a Xerox engineer, and it was the industries first high speed laser printer. It operated at speeds of more than 100 impressions per minute. It was the first to combine laser technology and electro-photography. • 1977 Magnetic Resonance Imagingwas invented. It used radio waves to produce clear images of the human body. It is not Xray technology. || • 1985 Microsoft Windows program was invented by Bill Gates. The Microsoft Corporation officially announced Microsoft Windows. It was to be the next generations operating system that a provided a graphical user interface (GUI) for its users, and a multitasking environment for the IBM computer. || • 1996 Web TV was invented and introduced by Zenith and later bought by Microsoft. Web TV is an additional device that compliments a regular TV. It is usually some type of box that provides the Internet connection and alters the web pages so that you can see them on a regular TV. || • 2005 YouTube was created. It is a destination on the WWW that allows viewers to watch and share original videos. Steve Chen is the inventor of YouTube. One can also embed these videos on websites that support the embed process from YouTube. ||
 * = Technology Innovations = ||
 * == 1900s == || • 1901 first radio receiver successfully received radio transmission. Radio technology had roots dating back as far as the 1860s with the telegraph. Today radio transmissions are used in cell phone signals.
 * == 1910s == || • 1910 Thomas Edison invented the first talking motion picture. Edison made several contributions to the motion picture industry even dating back to invention of the light bulb. His love for scopes led him to the invention of the standard phonograph to the motion picture to the kinetophone.
 * == 1920s == || • 1923 Morgan invents the traffic signal. Garrett Morgan was one of the first to receive a patent for traffic signals. He was inspired by witnessing a collision between a horse buggy and a car.
 * == 1930s == || • 1931 Germans Max Knott and Ernst Ruska co-invent the electron microscope. This invention made it possible to view objects as small as the diameter of an atom. Significant gains in biology were made due to this technological invention.
 * == 1940s == || • 1942 Atanasoff and Berry built the first [|electronic digital computer]. This computer system represented a binary system of arithmetic, parallel processing, regenerative memory, and separation of memory and computer functions.
 * == 1950s == || •1956 Graham invented “Mistake Out” later called liquid paper. Graham used her own kitchen blender to mix up her batch of "mistake out". It was originally to cover up mistakes on a paper.
 * == 1960s == || • 1962 Audio cassette invented. The first audio cassette tape used high quality polyester tape and playback was at the speed of 1.7/8 inches per second.
 * == 1970s == || 1973 Ethernet invented by Metcalfe. The Ethernet is a system of connected computers in a building using hardware and cables to connect them together. The Ethernet network revolutionized the way we share files and communicate within and infrastructure.
 * == 1980s == || • 1981 MS DOS invented. It was one of the first operating systems software to run on a personal computer. IBM test drove MS DOS for Microsoft.
 * == 1990s == || • 1990 WWW and HTTP created by Tim Berners-Lee. He led the development of the World Wide Web and coined the hypertext markup language that was used to create web pages.
 * == 2000s == || • 2001 Apple iPod was invented by Apple. It is a portable digital music player. The iPod can now play videos and has WIFI capability.