Word: bells
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Device first demonstrated at Bell Telephone Laboratories...
...William Shockley and his team at Bell Labs invented the transistor, which had the ability to take an electric current and translate it into on-off binary data. Thus began the digital age. Robert Noyce and Jack Kilby, a decade later, came up with ways to etch many transistors--eventually millions--onto tiny silicon wafers that became known as microchips...
...impetus behind easing communication--how often those independent breakthroughs were in information technology itself: the telegraph (Charles Wheatstone and Samuel F.B. Morse, 1837); color photography (Charles Cros and Louis Ducos du Hauron, 1868); the phonograph (Charles Cros--again!--and Thomas Edison, 1877); the telephone (Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell, 1876)--and so on, all the way up to the microchip (Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce...
...happened so fast. One minute Madama Butterfly was on the Gramophone, Harold Bell Wright's The Shepherd of the Hills was on the reading table, the pretty Gibson Girl you had seen in a magazine was on your mind. You wondered if you wanted to see Maude Adams in her return engagement as Peter Pan. Or perhaps brave the odors and chatter of the nickelodeon to catch that spunky new girl--her name, unpublicized at the time, was Mary Pickford--people were talking about in Ramona...
...Americans are fed up with 10-page phone bills listing service providers they don't remember contracting with, which have become the norm since 1984. Because of the 1996 act, major telecoms, including AT&T, Bell Atlantic and MCI/Sprint, will eventually be able to package Internet, cable TV, cellular, long distance and local services. That means one bill for all five services; consumers will also be allowed to choose the package that fits them. Further, telecom analysts say that the long distance market is in need of some new blood to fuel competition in the wake of the MCI-Sprint...