Japanese and Dutch scientists invented the Compact Disc (CD) in 1981. It was able to record sound as microscopic changes in the surface of a…
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The first true computers were only built around the 1940s, and the progress of the computer since that time is undoubtedly one of the most…
The first supersonic airliner Concorde began transatlantic flights from London to New York on 24 May 1976. The new aircraft reduced the flight time to…
The Cruise Missile – descended from the German V1 of World War II – is a long-range guided missile that has a terrain-seeking radar system…
The Daleks were the arch-enemies of the Doctor in the hugely popular BBC television series Doctor Who. They were created by writer Terry Nation and…
The Dansette record player became an iconic artefact of the youth culture of the 1950s and 1960s, and the name became used as a generic…
The first models (circa 1972) were very expensive and featured a flat black screen. One needed to press a small button on the side to…
Sony launched the digital audio revolution in 1983 with the first compact disc player. In 1984 they went one better, by introducing a miniaturised CD player…
On 6 June 1933, the world’s first drive-in movie theatre was opened in Camden, New Jersey, USA, by Richard Hollingshead Jr. Hollingshead patented a ramp…
As the 1950s dawned, a Communist attack seemed imminent. The Russians had grabbed Berlin and in 1949 had successfully tested their own A-bomb. China had…
The US company IBM made a great breakthrough in the storage and retrieval of computer information in 1970. The IBM 3740 system could be used…
Gaming companies had launched primitive and clumsy portable consoles in the past, but it was the arrival of the Nintendo Game Boy that launched mobile…
Now a mid-20th century icon, the Goblin Teasmade – which first appeared in 1936 – was one of the first combination automatic tea-maker and alarm…
When it was built in 1964, the GPO Tower in London was the tallest building in Britain. Situated near Tottenham Court Road, the Tower was…
Following the Korean War, aircraft companies in Europe and the United States began investigating the viability of Vertical/Short Takeoff and Landing (V/STOL) aircraft, which would…
The hovercraft was invented by British boat builder Christopher Cockerell in 1955. The theory behind one of the most successful inventions of the 20th century…
It was an Atari world back in the late 70s and early 80s, but Mattel’s Intellivison staged a pretty good coup. The Atari VCS (aka the 2600)…
Originally based on the ARPAnet military network launched in 1969 to link only universities, government bodies and defence agencies, the Internet quickly evolved into thousands…
Originally unveiled by Apple supremo Steve Jobs on 23 October 2001 – with the iconic pitch of putting “1,000 songs in your pocket” – the…