In the 1920s, the predecessor company to Libbey-Owens-Ford helped perfect the process of lamination to make windshields that didn't shatter into pieces.

上世纪20年代，利比-欧文斯-福特公司（Libbey-Owens-Ford）的前身公司完善了层压工艺，使汽车档风玻璃不致被粉碎。

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Here’s Herman Hollerith’s punch-card tabulating machine designed for the 1890 census–a predecessor of modern computers, and the product of a company that, after several mergers, evolved into IBM.

这种机器是为1890年的人口普查设计的，而它正是现代计算机的前身。 生产这种机器的公司，几经合并，成为IBM公司。

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A predecessor to the glass was made by Corning in the 1960s, nearly 50 years before the company resuscitated and tweaked the technology for "damage resistant" displays for consumer electronics.

它是一种名叫Gorilla Glass的产品，是玻璃的前身，由Corning公司成功研制于二十世纪六十年代。 近50年后，该技术经改进后用于制作消费类电子产品的“防破坏”（damage resistant）显示屏，这样这项技术才得以复活。

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