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Embedded systems

  • Mobile phoneMartin Cooper of Motorola stood on a New York City street on the 3rd of April 1973. He held a prototype handset that weighed approximately two kilograms or 4.
  • Debit cardIn 1983, Denmark introduced the Dankort, a plastic card that changed how people paid for groceries. By September of that year, the first electronic…
  • LGM-30 MinutemanAir Force Colonel Edward N. Hall stood before a group of engineers in 1956 and declared that solid fuel could power an intercontinental ballistic missile.