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William Gilbert coins the term electricity from the Greek word elecktra. https://www.computerhope.com/history/1600.htm
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The Microsoft Windows Epoch time is set to start on January 1, 1601. https://www.computerhope.com/history/1600.htm
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The word "computer" was first recorded as being used in 1613 and was originally used to describe a person who performed calculations or computations. The definition of a computer remained the same until the end of the 19th century when it began referring to a machine that performed calculations. https://www.computerhope.com/history/1600.htm
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John Napier illustrates and puts forward the idea of Logarithms. https://www.computerhope.com/history/1600.htm
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John Napier introduced a system called "Napier's Bones," made from horn, bone or ivory the device allowed the capability of multiplying by adding numbers and dividing by subtracting. https://www.computerhope.com/history/1600.htm
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The circular slide rule is invented by William Oughtred. https://www.computerhope.com/history/1600.htm
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The first known workable mechanical calculating machine is invented by Germanys Wilhelm Schickard. The machine is based on the idea of Napier's Bones, mentioned earlier. https://www.computerhope.com/history/1600.htm
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William Oughtred of Cambridge combines two Gunter rules to make a device that resembles today's slide rule. https://www.computerhope.com/history/1600.htm
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Frances Blaise Pascal invents a machine, called the Pascaline, that can add, subtract, and carry between digits. https://www.computerhope.com/history/1600.htm
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Gottfried Leibniz introduces the Step Reckoner, a device that can multiply, divide, and evaluate square roots. https://www.computerhope.com/history/1600.htm
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The first writing device (similar to a typewriter) to be patented is patented by Henry Mill in London England. https://www.computerhope.com/history/1600.htm
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In Lyon, France, Basile Bouchon invented a loom in 1725 that used a perforated paper tape roll that was later upgraded in 1728 by his assistant Jean-Baptiste Falcon to use punch cards. Although this loom predates the Jacquard Loom, it was not fully automated. https://www.computerhope.com/history/1600.htm
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On June 10, 1752, Benjamin Franklin flew a kite that collects a charge after being struck by lightning. https://www.computerhope.com/history/1600.htm
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The first telegraph is built. https://www.computerhope.com/history/1600.htm
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Frances Joseph-Marie Jacquard completes his fully automated loom that is programmed by punched cards. https://www.computerhope.com/history/1600.htm
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Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar creates the "Arithometer," the first reliable, useful, and commercially successful calculating machine. The calculator could not only add but also subtract, multiply, and divide. https://www.computerhope.com/history/1600.htm
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Baron Jons Jackob Berzelius discovered silicon (Si), which today is the basic component of an integrated circuit (IC). https://www.computerhope.com/history/1600.htm
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The earliest known surviving photograph is taken by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in 1825 of a view of a courtyard from his window. https://www.computerhope.com/history/1600.htm
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Harrison Dyar becomes the first person in the United States to invent a Telegraph type device. https://www.computerhope.com/history/1600.htm
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On October 21, 1832, Pavel Schilling became the first to transmit signals between two telegraphs in different rooms of his apartment. https://www.computerhope.com/history/1600.htm
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Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail begin developing a code (later called Morse code) that used different numbers to represent the letters of the English alphabet and the ten digits. https://www.computerhope.com/history/1600.htm
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Samuel Morse dispatched the first telegraphic message over a line from Washington, D.C. to Baltimore on May 24, 1844. The now famous message was: "What hath God wrought." https://www.computerhope.com/history/1600.htm
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Royal Earl House patented a printing telegraph that used 28 piano-style keys to represent each letter of the alphabet and make it easier for everyone to send messages. https://www.computerhope.com/history/1600.htm
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The phonautograph (phonograph) was patented on March 25, 1857, by Frenchman Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville. The device was capable of transcribing sound to a medium. https://www.computerhope.com/history/1600.htm
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The company American Telephone and Telegraph Company that later became AT&T was founded in 1875. https://www.computerhope.com/history/1600.htm
