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Computer History

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    History of Technology

  • Printing Press

    Printing Press
    Printing press used in 1811
  • Incandescent Light bulb

    Incandescent  Light bulb
    Invented by Thomas Edison in 1879 and was improved later on by various British inventors.
  • Wireless Telegraphy

    Wireless Telegraphy
    First wireless telegraphy built a few years before the 1900s
  • Phonograph

    Phonograph
    Invented by Thomas Edison for mechanical recording and reproduction of sound
  • Mechanical Computer

    Mechanical Computer
    The first type of computer
  • Headphones

    Headphones
    Radio headphones were the first headphones ever created. Headphones in the early 1900s consisted of moving iron transducers. Sound was carried across the telephone lines in the form of electrical impulses, making the iron transducers move at the receiving end, transmitting sound.
  • TV Broadcasting

    TV Broadcasting
    Black and white screens in the 1930s
  • Hand-held cell phone

    Hand-held cell phone
    This was the first hand-held cell phone commercially available
  • Playstation 1

    Playstation 1
    PlayStation 1 is a video game console and the first PlayStation to be released
  • IPhone 1

    IPhone 1
    First generation of IPhone to be released