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2. Passbook - Wikipedia

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   To add credit to an account by bringing cash to a bank in person, the account holder can fill a small credit slip or deposit slip.The total value of notes and coins is counted and entered on the slip, along with the date and the payer's name.

3. Computer programming in the punched card era - Wikipedia

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   A single program deck, with individual subroutines marked. The markings show the effects of editing, as cards are replaced or reordered. Many early programming languages, including FORTRAN, COBOL and the various IBM assembler languages, used only the first 72 columns of a card – a tradition that traces back to the IBM 711 card reader used on the IBM 704/709/7090/7094 series (especially the ...

4. Sears - Wikipedia

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   Sears, Roebuck and Co. (/ s ɪər z / SEERZ), [5] commonly known as Sears, is an American chain of department stores founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck and reincorporated in 1906 by Richard Sears and Julius Rosenwald, with what began as a mail ordering catalog company migrating to opening retail locations in 1925, the first in Chicago. [6]

5. QR code - Wikipedia

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   The QR code system was invented in 1994, at the Denso Wave automotive products company, in Japan. [5] [6] [7] The initial alternating-square design presented by the team of researchers, headed by Masahiro Hara, was influenced by the black counters and the white counters played on a Go board; [8] the pattern of position detection was found and determined by applying the least-used ratio (1:1:3 ...

6. Gel wipe - Wikipedia

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7. Facial tissue - Wikipedia

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   In 1924, facial tissues as they are known today were first introduced by Kimberly-Clark as Kleenex. It was invented as a means to remove cold cream . Early advertisements linked Kleenex to Hollywood makeup departments and sometimes included endorsements from movie stars ( Helen Hayes and Jean Harlow ) who used Kleenex to remove their theatrical ...