Gadgets Then And Now

Cameras

Then: Alexander Wolcott invented the first camera, a design he patented in 1840. However, George Eastman brought photography and cameras to the general public around 1885. Eastman called his first camera the ‘Kodak.’ The ‘Kodak’ was a box camera with a fixed lens and single shutter speed. The ‘Kodak’ had enough film for a hundred exposures and had to be sent back to the factory for processing.

Now: Get instant pictures with a Canon DSLR that features full HD (1080p) video recording or a touch screen Sony Cyber-shot TX9.

Vacuum Cleaners

Then: In 1907, William Henry Hoover produced the first commercial bag-on-a-stick upright vacuum cleaner in Ohio, USA. He bought the design patent from his wife’s cousin, James Murray Spangler, who had tried to put together an electric fan, a box, and one of his wife’s pillowcases to loosen debris. Hoover redesigned the machine with a steel casing, casters, and attachments, and the rest was cleaning history.

Now: Self-vacuuming gadgets like the iRobot Roomba, the Mint, and the Dyson DC06 help shorten your chore list.

Typewriters

Then: The Blicksenderfer Manufacturing Company produced the first electric typewriter in 1902. Typewriters didn’t reach mass market until much later — when IBM released the Electric Typewriter Model 01 in 1935. Generation X learned to type on a variation of this model until desktop computers made them virtually extinct.

Now: Macbook Air, Laptops, netbooks, desktop computers.

Source: (Time, Pocket-Lint)

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