In the mid-1940s about 10,000 Americans owned these electronic devices; by 1957 about 40 million were in use
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The History of Computers in a Nutshell - Six Revisions  Apr 21, 2010 ... Mid-1800s-1930s: Early Mechanical Computers ... These early computers were never completed during Babbage's lifetime, ... million Americansand the first binary computer: Konrad Zuse's Z1, which ... 1940s: Electronic Computers ... The first electronic computers were developed during the World War II,...
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History of computing hardware - Wikipedia  The history of computing hardware covers the developments from early simple devices to aid calculation to modern day computers. Before the 20th century, most calculations were done by humans. ..... A dozen of these devices were built before their obsolescence became obvious; the most powerful was constructed at the...
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Number of Televisions in the US - Hypertextbook  The Americans. ... "By 1960, there were 52 million sets in American homes, one in almost nine ... "In 1945, there were probably fewer than 10,000 sets in the country. ... (CEA), there are currently 285 million televisions in use in US households. ... television today is arguably one of the most popular home electronic devices.
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Milestones | Kodak  Kodak also marketed the first film especially coated for motion picture use. 1896. Kodak established a wholly-owned subsidiary in France, expanding a branch office ..... More than 50 million INSTAMATIC Cameras were produced by 1970. ... using a dual-lens camera, film, processor, and readout device supplied by Kodak.
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APUSH vocab chpts. 28-30 Flashcards | Quizlet  Televisions. In the mid-1940s about 10,000 Americans owned these electronic devices; by 1957 about 40 million were in use.
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The State of Consumption Today | Worldwatch Institute  By one calculation, there are now more than 1.7 billion members of the ... North America, Japan, and a few other pockets of the world in the twentieth century ... This surge in human numbers threatens to offset any savings in resource use ... Indeed, in most developing countries the consumer class accounts for less than half...
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DIGITAL Magazine - Professors  Aug 15, 2011 ... ished the middle class and vulnerable three times with a big stick, shrinking Social .... Over the years, cell phones have become smaller and smaller .... is Cornell University Professor Steven Strogatz, author of Nonlinear ..... probably had about 50,000 members, and even a wagered half ... It's good having a.
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Free Flashcards about BUSINESS & INDUSTRY - StudyStack  IN 1998, THIS 106-YEAR-OLD COMPANY BECAME THE FIRST IN THE U.S. TO TOP $300 BILLION IN MARKET VALUE, GENERAL ELECTRIC. FIRST SOLD...
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Entertainment Industry Analysis - California State University ...  May 13, 2011 ... Rachel Austin ... 2000, E&P ... Number of iPods Sold during the Fiscal Year ending Sep. .... There are over 200 companies in the entertainment industry and the top seven companies control the majority of the market. ..... assets possessed by each entertainment company (figures shown in billions of dollars).
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jeopardy/1127_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  Wrong: Value: $400. Number: 24. TECHNOLOGY | Far less powerful than today's PC, this 1950s machine was the U.S.A.'s first commercial computer | UNIVAC.
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Peugeot`s U.s. Exit May Be Omen For Other Small Importers ...  The French automaker, which has been selling cars in the U.S. since 1958, said Tuesday it no longer will build cars for this market effective immediately. ... August 07, 1991|By Jim Mateja, Auto writer. ... Derderian said Peugeot has about 1,000 1991 Model 405 sedans and wagons and Model 505 wagons still in inventory...
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UNIVAC I - History - U.S. Census Bureau - Census.gov  The Census Bureau installed the first commercial computer for civilian use in March 1951 to process returns from the 1950 census. ... and construction of the Electronic Numeric Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) Link to a non-federal Web site ... The Bureau purchased a second UNIVAC I machine in the mid-1950's, and two...
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NETTING AMERICA - A.3 The 1930s: When the Depression was the ...  Strikes were rife at General Motors (it spread to six states) and Chrysler motors, while ... Hoover (1929-1933) told the nation that Prosperity is just around the corner, there was ... In the early 1930s the U.S. was the richest nation in the world.
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Satellite Pirates | WIRED  Aug 1, 1994 ... This is where Fred stores his program code, which takes control of ... But in the early 1980s, home users started buying their own dishes, ... Well, it turned out that the signal wasn't going to disappear after all  at least, not for a year or two. ... numbers" through a chain of dealers across the entire continent.
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The Transistor - History - Nobelprize.org  Dec 19, 2002 ... Such logic chips are at the heart of your personal computer and many other ... Soon after the discovery of the light bulb, a third electrode was placed in ... Radio brought information rapidly to the masses and was the first widely...
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The Americans Unit 6.pdf - Jackson School District  a sincere belief or because they saw a way to keep wages down, attempted to ...... Internet at a fraction of what it would cost to use a specialist. ...... 1937. 1938. 1939. 1940. FDR's New Deal. It is 1933, the height of the Great Depression. Thousands of ...... I see one third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished. However...
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Tablero de Gestin de Servicios Electrnico  The delays would also affectnumerous programs and products in the company s defensebusiness. ... In 1957 a group of black students, later called the Little Rock Nine, helped ... I hope the Democrats hold firm and do not give in to these criminals. ...  If Facebook had view counts with names and you visited someone's...
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Personal Computers, Killer Applications, and SUN - A History of ...  Asked by IBM to deliver an operating system for the 8086, in 1981 Bill Gates' Microsoft ... The business models chosen by IBM and Microsoft would have far-reaching consequences. ... About 1.4 million personal computers were sold in 1981, half of them in the US. However, less than 1% of all households in the US had one.
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Jeopary Questions page 1104 - MAGAZINES - TriviaBistro.com  DALLAS: TXN on the New York Stock Exchange, this Dallas electronics firm employs over 38,000 people worldwide  THE "A"-TEAM: On March 25, 1972 this...
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Tricorders - Notes  But this is barely the start of the capabilities of this amazing device. ... models of tricorder; the standard model in use during the mid 2360s was the TR-580. ... The unit was fitted with a detachable handheld scanner unit which contained 17 high ... Together these segments were capable of 150 GFP calculations per second;...
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Dec. 23, 1947: Transistor Opens Door to Digital Future | WIRED  Dec 23, 2009 ... It's been called the most important invention of the 20th century. ... Following more experiments, germanium replaced silicon, which ... Prize in Physics for the transistor, but the trio never worked together after the first ... Shockley Semiconductor in Mountain View, California  one of the .... Get Our Newsletter...