The Bloomberg Terminal, an iconic tool in the world of finance, transformed how professionals accessed, analyzed, and acted on market information. Lunched in the early 1980s, it quickly became an indispensable part of the financial industry, enabling faster and more informed decision-making. By 2012, the Bloomberg Terminal had a greater annual revenue than Thomson Reuters. The terminal’s evolution reflects the vision of its founder, Michael Bloomberg, and the broader transformation of financial markets through technology. The Origins of the Bloomberg Terminal The Bloomberg Terminal was born out of a need for real-time financial data in an era when market information was often delayed or incomplete. In 1981, Michael Bloomberg, a…

The track-ball – an ancestor of the computer mouse The computer mouse was not invented until the 1960s, but it has many similarities with the trackball created by the  British scientist and electrical engineer Ralph Benjamin for radar plotting in 1946. The trackball is therefore commonly seen as an ancestor of the computer mouse. It was invented for a fire-control radar plotting system named The Comprehensive Display System (CDS) while Benjamin was working for the British Royal Navy Scientific Service. Benjamin´s project originally used a joystick, and Benjamin designed the track-ball (he called it a roller ball) as a more elegant and functional solution. The device was patented in 1947…