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The very first PC was introduced by IBM

The very first PC was introduced by IBM

1981

IBM introduced their first PC on August 12, 1981 with 16 KB RAM, Color Graphics Adapter, keyboard, and no disk drives. Starting price at $1,565.

The Singer Sewing Machine is Patented

The Singer Sewing Machine is Patented

1851

Isaac Merritt Singer was no introverted back-room inventor, but one of the most forceful, flamboyant and unscrupulous tycoons in American business history. Though he did not invent the sewing machine, he designed the first practical and efficient one, used mass-production techniques to manufacture it and pioneered the hire-purchase system of buying on credit in easy instalments, which revolutionised consumer behaviour.

Erwin Schrödinger was born

Erwin Schrödinger was born

1887

Austrian theoretical physicist Erwin Schrödinger, who shared the 1933 Nobel Prize for Physics for his contributions to the wave theory of matter and to other fundamentals of quantum mechanics, was born in Vienna.

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