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E-mail, Toaster, Copy Machine
Electronic mail, better known as e-mail, has been around since the early 1960s. In 1971, a man named Roy Tomilson was working with a team of engineers building a system that became known as the Internet. He wanted the engineers to be able to communicate with each other not only between different computers on one system, but also between different offices across the country. E-mail as we know it was born. Next, toast has been around since the Roman Empire, when bread was heated over a fire to actually preserve it. The method for making it didn't change too much until 1909, when the first electric toaster was produced. Today, almost 90 percent of American homes have one. Then, Chester Carlson invented what we now call the copy machine. His method was called electro-photography and worked on the theory that when light hits certain materials, its electricity increased. In 1959, 21 years later, the first machines using Carlson's patent were finally introduced.

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