1. The first commercial microwave oven was called the "1161 Radarange" and was the size of a refrigerator (which is kind of a good thing, because then you didn’t have to squeeze in that huge “fatta” casserole).
2. When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone back in 1876, only six phones were sold in the first month (one of the reasons you shouldn’t quit, even if you think you‘ve failed).