Adams History

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Technology

Silent Films (We Have The Tape Rolls On Display)

Silent films were introduced in 1922, these were low resolution, black and white films with no audio. Since there was no audio actors had to show great amount of emotion and expression so the people watching could understand what was going on, A really famous silent film actor is Charlie Chaplin.

Credit Cards

Frank McNamara invented the credit card on Oct 31 in the year 1950, this revolutionized the way people spent their money. we have from the year 1951 to 1967 on display. Frank McNamara came up with this idea when he went out to dinner and forgot his wallet at home, he thought it would be a smart idea to have cash in a card digitally.

IBM 5150 (Personal Computer)

The IBM 5150 was the personal computer that brought power to the masses, not running windows or Mac OS or even Linux, But this computer ran off of command console prompts, This computer could not connect the the internet but could read floppy disks that on average could store  140 KB. Now a days that wouldn't save even an HD photo.