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Debit cardIn 1958, the first plastic payment card was born, yet it took nearly three decades for the concept of spending money you actually had to become a global…
TelevisionOn the 25th of March 1925, a ventriloquist dummy named Stooky Bill became the first moving image to be transmitted to a human eye in a public demonstration.
Integrated circuitIn September 1958, Jack Kilby held a small, rectangular piece of germanium in his hand that contained an entire electronic circuit, yet it was not a single…