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1903 AIRPLANE
Brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright owned
a bicycle shop. That’s not how they became
famous, though. They invented one of the
first airplanes, which helped make people’s
TELEVISION dreams of flying come true.
Philo Farnsworth grew up in a home
without electricity, yet at age 21, 1928
he invented the television. In his lifetime, BUBBLEGUM
the productive Farnsworth invented
hundreds of other things as well. For centuries, people
chewed the gum, or sap, from
trees. Walter Diemer came up with an idea
for making stretchier gum. His invention
keeps kids popping bubbles to this day.
SKATEBOARD
1958
No one knows who first thought of VIDEO GAME
attaching roller-skate wheels to a board,
but it was probably a surfer. Surfing was The first video game was
becoming more and more popular in the called Tennis for Two. It was invented at
late 1950s, and skate-boarding became Brookhaven National Laboratory in New
a way to “surf” on the street.
York. A lighted dot acted like a tennis ball.
Players “hit” the ball back and forth by
1977 pushing a button.
PERSONAL
COMPUTER CELL PHONE
1983
One of the earliest personal computers The cell phone had been around
had a keyboard but no screen. To use it, for 10 years before anyone could
people connected it to a television. buy one. One of the first cell
phones weighed nearly two
pounds and cost almost $4,000!
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