The Seeburg company produced the first jukeboxes to play 45 rpm singles, and they soon became regular fixtures in bars, bowling alleys and coffee shops.…
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K-Tel were famous for their TV commercials pitching their mass-market compilation LPs and tapes and their household ‘gadgets’. Everything they sold was labelled “As advertised…
The first Kodak Instamatic camera – the 50 – arrived in the UK in February 1963 and was swiftly followed by the 100, which had…
In 1978, Phillips began selling the LaserDisc (abbreviated as ‘LD’) – a home video format and the first commercial optical disc storage medium, beating the…
Bette Nesmith Graham never set out to be an inventor, believing her vocation in life was to be an artist. However, shortly after the Second…
Calculators became portable during the 1970s following a breakthrough that enabled their development with just a few low-powered chips. In 1973, they also became affordable…
In the 1890s, the small Californian town of Los Angeles began a transformation driven by the discovery and drilling of some of the most productive…
Looking back, It is almost impossible to convey the wonder and awe these devices inspired when they were first introduced. Cooking food on paper plates…
The first mobile phone call in the UK was a strange publicity event. To show off their new network, Vodafone chose comedy legend Ernie Wise…
The Moog Synthesizer was originated by Dr Robert Moog in the mid-sixties and launched commercially in 1970. The synthesizer used electronically modulated oscillators to produce a…
Manufactured by Japanese toy company Tomy, Mr DJ was the star of the British International Toy and Hobby Fair in 1987. Mr DJ was an…
The Holland Tunnel, located under the Hudson River in New York City, was opened in 1927, connecting Lower Manhattan in the east to Jersey City in…
Before there was Atari, before there was even Pong, there was the Odyssey. We take it for granted now, of course, but try to remember…
It used to be the case that if you wanted to telephone somebody while walking down the street you would go into a phone box,…
In the 1960s, the scientific advances and upheavals in post-industrial society collided to create the sexual revolution. From its roots in Britain and the US…
The self-developing “Land Camera” – named after American scientist and Polaroid Corporation founder Edwin Land who invented a process for self-developing photography in the 1940s…
Prior to Decimalisation in February 1971, Britain’s currency featured an eclectic range of coins much loved by the nation, though visitors from overseas were often baffled…
In order to encourage people to save again following the end of the second world war, Premium Savings Bonds went on sale from 1 November…
Most of those responsible for the European development of the Quadraphonic stereo system would probably rather forget that they were involved. To say that it…
If you went to see Earthquake (1974) at a cinema, chances are that it was in “Sensurround”. The Sensurround system was designed to envelop the audience with…