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1940:
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Fantasia introduces stereo sound to American public.
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1941:
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Stereo is installed in a Moscow movie theater .
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1941:
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FCC sets U.S. TV standards.
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1941:
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CBS and NBC start commercial transmission; WW II intervenes.
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1941:
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Goldmark at CBS experiments with electronic color TV.
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1941:
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Microwave transmission.
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1941:
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Zuse's Z3 is the first computer controlled by software.
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1942:
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Atanasoff, Berry builds the first electronic digital computer.
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1942:
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Kodacolor process produces the color print.
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1943:
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Repeaters on phone lines quiet long distance call noise.
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1944:
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Harvard's Mark 1, first digital computer, put in service.
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1944:
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IBM offers a typewriter with proportional spacing.
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1948
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NBC presents first U.S. network newscast, a curiosity.
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1945:
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Clarke envisions geo-synchronous communication satellites.
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1945:
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It is estimated that 14,000 products are made from paper.
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1946:
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Jukeboxes go into mass production.
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1946:
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Pennsylvania's ENIAC heralds the modem electronic computer.
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1946:
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Automobile radio telephones connect to telephone network.
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1946:
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French engineers build a phototypesetting machine.
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1947:
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Hungarian engineer in England invents holography.
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1947:
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The transistor is invented, will replace vacuum tubes.
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1947:
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The zoom tens covers baseball's world series for TV.
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1947:
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Holography invented.
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1948:
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The LP record arrives on a vinyl disk.
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1948:
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Shannon and Weaver of Bell Labs propound information theory.
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1948:
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Land's Polaroid camera prints pictures in a minute.
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1948:
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Hollywood switches to nonflammable film.
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1948:
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Public clamor for television begins; FCC freezes new licenses.
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1948:
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Airplane re-broadcasts TV signal across nine states.
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1949:
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Network TV in U.S.
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1949:
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RCA offers the 45 rpm record.
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1949:
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Community Antenna Television, forerunner to cable.
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1049:
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Whirlwind at MIT is the first real time computer.
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1949:
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Magnetic core computer memory is invented.
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