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1921
Karel Capek, an author from Czechoslovakia, produced a work called "Rossum's Universal Robots", which featured machines, called Robots, created to simulate human beings.
The first Radio Shack was created in the heart of downtown Boston. It was a mail-order company which catered to ham radio operators and electronics buffs.
1922
BBC established.
1924
C-T-R changed it's name to International Business Machines, (IBM).
John Logie Baird, a Scottish engineer, created the first television from cardboard, scrap wood, needles, string and other scrap materials.

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