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Pascaline
Blaise Pascal invented the Pascaline. The Pascaline was a complicated set of gears that operated similarly
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The Telegraph
Samuel F. B. Morse, assisted by Alfred Vail, conceived of the idea for an electromechanical telegraph. 1837 they further refined it into a working mechanical form. -
Analytical Engine
It supposed to perform a variety of calculations by following a set of instructions, or program,stored on punched cards. The Analytical Engine was planned to store information in a memory unit that would allow it tomake decisions and then carry out instructions based on those decisions. It was never built but its design served as a model for the modern computer. -
The Typewriter
Typewriters had been invented as early as 1714 by Henry Mill and reinvented in various forms throughout the 1800s. It was Christopher Latham Sholes who invented the first one to be commercially successful. -
The Phonograph
Invented by Thomas Edison they were used to play records. His first phonograph used tin covered cylinders to record vibrations of sound that were focused by a horn like device onto a diaphragm which etched a helical groove onto a rotating cyclinder covered with tin foil. The sound could then be played back from the etched cylinder as a needle went along the groove and reversed the process, making the diaphragm vibrate, recreating the original sound. -
Invention of the Radio
Radios send messages by radio waves instead of wires. Gugliemo Marconi invented what he called "the wireless telegraph" while experimenting in his parents attic. He used radio waves to transmit morse code and the instrument he used became known as the radio. Radio works by changing sounds or signals into radio waves, which travel through air, space, and solid objects, and the radio receiver changes them back into sounds, words, and mucks we hear. -
"Model K " Adder
Bell Laboratoires scientist George Stibitz uses relays for a demonstration adder. He built it on his kitchen table, this demonstration circuit provides proof of concept for applying Boolean logic to the design of computers, resulting in construction of the replay based Model I Complex Calculator in 1939. -
First Electronic Computer
The Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC) was the first electronic computer. It was designed and built by John Vincent Atanasoff and his assistant, Clifford E. Berry. It used binary number system of 1s and 0s still used today. -
The ENIAC
The Elecronic Numerial Integration and Caculator, also know as The ENIAC, was made for WWII trajectory of shells but not finished after war was over in 1964. It solved problems in twenty seconds while it would've taken a mathmatiian three days. -
Curta Caculator
Curt Herzstrark was an Austrian engineer who worked in his family's manufacturing business until he was arrested by Nazis. While imprisoned he refines his pre-war design of a calculator featuring a modified version of Leibniz "stepped drum" design. Made history as the smallest all mechanical, four- function calculator ever built. -
Second Generation Computer
IBM Model 650 was the first medium sized computer, it was smaller and cheaper than before. The punched carsds were replaced by magentic tape. -
Third Generation Computers
The IBM System 360 was one of the first third generation computers. It was cheaper so hosptials and unversities could afford them. -
First mobile phone
Martin Cooper, a Motorola researcher and executive, made the first mobile telephone call from handheld subscriber equipment, placing a call to Dr. Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs. The prototype handheld phone used by Dr. Cooper weighed 1.1 kg and measured 23 cm long, 13 cm deep and 4.45 cm wide. The prototype offered a talk time of just 30 minutes and took 10 hours to recharge. -
Founding of Microsoft
Bill Gates and Paul Allen converted BASIC for use on an early personal computer, the Altair. The name mircosoft comes from mircocomputer and software. It's now one of the biggest companies worldwide. -
The First Digital Camera
Steven Sasson as an engineer at Eastman Kodak invented and built the first electronic camera using a charge-couple image sensor -
Founding of Apple
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak wanted to make computers small enough for people to have them in their homes or offices. They wanted a computer that was user-friendly. -
First Apple Product
The first Apple product was the Apple I. The Apple I kits were computers single handedly designed and hand built by Steve Wozniak and first shown to the public at the Homebrew Computer Club. -
First Touchscreen Phone
The first touchscreen phone was launched in 1992 by IBM. The IBM Simon is also referred to the first smartphone. It was refined further and marketed to consumers in 1994 by BellSouth corporation an American telecommunications holding company based in Atlanta, Georgia. -
First MP3 player
The first portable MP3 player was launched in 1997 by Saehan Imformation System, which sold its "MPMan" player in Asia in spring 1998. -
The First Camera Phone
The first cell phone with a built in camera was manufactured by Samsung and released in South Korea. The SCH-V200 flipped open to reveal a 1.5 TFT-LCD and the built in camera was capable of taking 20 pictures at 350,000 pixel resolution.
