History of Computers----Luke Garrett

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
01/18/1900	Spread Spectrum	Nikola Tesla develops frequency hopping, now known as spread spectrum.
03/18/1918	Panasonic	Panasonic is founded.
01/18/1921	Radio Shack	The first Radio Shack store is open.
01/18/1934	FCC	The FCC is established. The U.S. Communication Act is established shorty after.
01/18/1937	First electronic computer	Iowa State Colleges John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry begin work on creating the binary-based ABC (Atanasoft-Berry Computer). Considered by most to be the first electronic digital computer.
01/18/1937	PCM	Alec Reeves develops PCM (used for cd's, dvd's and blu-ray discs)
10/22/1938	The Xerox	Chester Carlson produces first electrophotographic image October 22, 1938, which later becomes the Xerox machine.
01/18/1940	Complex Number Calculator	George Stibitz completes the Complex Number Calculator capable of adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing complex numbers. This device provides a foundation for digital computers.
05/12/1941	Z3	German Konrad Zuse finishes the Z3, a fully program-operational calculating machine. The computer is publically introduced in Berlin May 12, 1941.
01/19/1943	First calculator	ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer), the first general-purpose electronic digital calculator begins to be constructed. This computer by most is considered to be the first electronic computer.
01/19/1945	Debugging	The term bug as computer bug was termed by Grace Hopper when programming the MARK II.
01/19/1949	Chess	Claude Shannon builds the first machine that plays chess at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
01/19/1955	AI	John McCarthy coins the term Artificial Intelligence (AI) in 1955 at Dartmouth University.
01/19/1958	Tennis for Two	William Higinbotham created the first video game called: Tennis for Two.
01/19/1960	AT&T	AT&T introduces the dataphone and the first known MODEM.