Technology Then and Now

TECHNOLOGY THEN & NOW TELEVISION 1930s we had achieued mouing pictures, but we were forced to watch them outside of our homes. 1934 Philo T. Farnsworth First all-electronic teleuision mechanism, shooting electrons back and forth onto a screen, creating the moving image. 4K 4K or Ultra HD sets are already on the market and offer up to four times the resolution of standard HD sets, and run about $5,000 for a 55-inch set. 1939 PHILIPS First RCA model debuted at $600. The equiualent of $9,773 in 2011. War Production Board stops 1942 production of TU sets, to free up resources for the great effort. 1953 RCA CT-100, a 12" console was the first True-life color TU, which could receiue shows in black and white, or color. Sold for $1,000 ($8,480 in 2011) Phillips WOWux SD TU series $3,000 to Š12,000 -D COMPUTERS 1936 1984 Konrad Zuse used a Z1, an electrical binary programmable computer. IBM Releases first laptop. 1975 First personal computer released. Relied on a series of switches to input or output data by turning on and off a series of light. THE 24" CINEMA DISPLAY 1976 $899 Apple releases first single circuit board computer on April Fools Day. It cost $666.66 CAMERAS FUJIFILM X1005 $1,299.95 1975 A Kodak engineer borrowed some technology from NASA and Bing Crosby to make the first digital camera. - Retro Design - Hybrid Viewfinder 1991 CANON EDS GD Kodak had refined Sasson's idea into the first professional digital camera. The DCS-100 launched the SLA line at a $13,000 price point. $2099.00 • Compact • Weighs just under 1.7 pounds without a lens. Canon 1994 Apple QuickTake 100 could take eight quick pictures on a card, cost $750 and only interfaced with Macs. CELL PHONES IPHONE 5 1973 Basic 16 GB: $199 with a two-year contract, or $649 without. martin Cooper placed the world's first mobile phone call from a manhattan street corner. 12:45 The motorola DynaTAC 8000H weighed 2.5 pounds, had a single-line, text-only LED screen. SAMSUNG GALAXY S III It would take a decade before motorola's DynaTAC finally reached consumer hands. Basic 16 GB: $99 with a contract or $549 without. 1983 10:08. FCC approued the 8000H, the world's first commercial portable cell phone. HTC ONE Basic 32 GB: $199 with contract or $579 without. It cost consumers $3,995. 88.313.4793 NationalPositions CobleWholesale Profitable Internet Marketing