My Romance. Maggie Smith plays a heart-on-sleeve novelist in the deeply felt My House in Umbria; Rachael Stirling is smashing (natchâsheâs Diana Riggsâs daughter) in Tipping the Velvet. After the bomb: Emmy Clarke, left, and Dame Maggie Smith in Umbria. Emily Delahunty (Maggie Smith) is an aging romance novelist who has rewritten her own life.
Since the mid-1970s, Kodak has invented several solid-state image sensors that converted light to digital pictures for professional and home consumer use. In 1986, Kodak scientists invented the world's first megapixel sensor, capable of recording 1.4 million pixels that could produce a 5x7-inch digital photo-quality print. In 1987, Kodak released seven products for recording, storing, manipulating, transmitting and printing electronic still video images.
The answer to this question depends on your definition of a computer. The earliest computers were mechanical devices used to help people count. The first known counting devices or tools were Tally Sticks from about 35,000 BCE.The abacus was invented, possibly by the Babylonians or the Chinese in about 2400 BCE.   The first of the modern computers was invented during World War II, in 1941 by a German engineer named Konrad Zuse. The computer was called the Z3 and was used to help design German airplanes and missles.