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Martin Cooper changed the world when he pioneered the portable phone. The Motorola company’s four-pound box has evolved into a global army of powerful smartphones weighing ounces.

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In 1775, the Continental Congress established the Army as the first U.S. military service. In 1777, the Stars and Stripes became the national U.S. flag. In 1922, Warren G. Harding became the first U.S ...

In 1954, GE Appliance Park in Louisville became the first private business in the U.S. to buy a UNIVAC I computer. The 30-ton computer, which was first used by the federal government, cost $1.2 ...

Hopper was a computer scientist and mathematician who worked on the Universal Automatic Computer (UNIVAC I), one of the first all-electronic digital computers. She received a degree in mathematics ...

The IBM 350, the world's first hard disk, was released in 1956. As the RAMAC computer's memory, it had space for 3.75 megabytes of data.

In 1954 IBM engineers presented what would be the first successful commercial computer. The IBM 650 cost $500,000, compared to a million dollars for the UNIVAC.