WebTV
“Zenith Electronics is planning a television set that will incorporate a microprocessor and modem, as well as technology developed by Diba Inc. that allows viewers to surf the Web via a remote control...
View ArticleWheel
The wheel is everywhere on all our cars, trains, planes, machines, wagons, and most factory and farm equipment. What could we move without wheels? But as important as the wheel is as an invention, we...
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It is uncertain as to what can be considered the first wheelchair, or who invented it. The first known dedicated wheelchair (invented in 1595 and called an invalids chair) was made for Phillip II of...
View ArticleMicrosoft Windows
On November 10, 1983, at the Plaza Hotel in New York City, Microsoft Corporation formally announced Microsoft Windows, a next-generation operating system that would provide a graphical user interface...
View ArticleWrenches
A wrench is a tool – the English call it a spanner – that is usually operated by hand, and is made for tightening or loosening bolts, nuts or anything that needs to turn. Solymon Merrick patented the...
View ArticleWristies
In 1994, Kathryn Gregory, now a teenager from Bedford, Massachusetts, became an inventor and an entrepreneur at the age of ten. Kathryn invented and trademarked Wristies. Wristies are protective winter...
View ArticleYellow Pages
The very first time the term yellow pages was used was in 1883. A printer working on a regular telephone directory ran out of white paper and used yellow paper instead. In 1886, Reuben H. Donnelly...
View ArticleYo-Yo
D.F. Duncan Sr. was the co-patent holder of a four-wheel hydraulic automobile brake and the marketer of the first successful parking meter. He was also the genius behind the first premium incentive...
View ArticleYouTube
YouTube was invented by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim out of a garage in Menlo Park. The inventors became millionaires when they sold their invention for 1.65 billion dollars to the search...
View ArticleZamboni
Frank Zamboni invented the world’s first self-propelled ice resurfacing machine in 1949, which he trademarked the ZAMBONI® ice resurfacing machine. Frank Zamboni Frank Zamboni was born in 1901, in...
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