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    Ling Lan Can invents the first fully manchaincal clock

  • Sep 15, 1492

    Leonardo da Vinci: Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci depict inventions such as flying machines, including a helicopter, the first mechanical calculator and one of the first programmable robots

  • John Napier: John Napier invents a system of moveable rods (Napier's Rods) based on logarithms which was able to multiply, divide and calculate square and cube roots

  • William Oughtred: William Oughtred develops slide rules

  • Calculating Clock: Invented by Wilhelm Schickard

  • Blaise Pascal: Blaise Pascal invents the the "Pascaline", a mechanical adding machine

  • Gottfried Leibniz: Gottfried Leibniz is known as one of the founding fathers of calculus

  • Joseph-Marie Jacquard: Joseph-Marie Jacquard invents an automatic loom controlled by punched cards

  • Arithmometer: The Arithmometer was the first mass-produced calculator invented by Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar

  • Charles Babbage: Charles Babbage designs his first mechanical computer

  • Analytical Engine: The Analytical Engine was invented by Charles Babbage

  • Morse code: Samuel Morse invents Morse code

  • Boolean algebra: Boolean algebra is invented by George Boole

  • Tabulating Machine: Per Georg Scheutz and his son Edvard invent the Tabulating Machine

  • William Stanley Jevons: William Stanley Jevons designs a practical logic machine

  • Ramon Verea: Ramon Verea invents a fast calculator with an internal multiplication table

  • Alexander Graham Bell: Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone called the Photophone

  • Comptometer: The Comptometer is an invention of Dorr E. Felt which is operated by pressing keys

  • Herman Hollerith: Herman Hollerith invents a counting machine which increment mechanical counters

  • Guglielmo Marconi: Radio signals were invented by Guglielmo Marconi

  • Tabulating Machine Company: Herman Hollerith forms the Tabulating Machine Company which later becomes IBM

  • Nikola Tesla: Remote control was invented by Nikola Tesla

  • Lee De Forest: Lee De Forest invents the electronic tube

  • IBM: IBM is formed on June 15, 1911

  • Philo Farnsworth: Television Electronic was invented by Philo Farnsworth

  • John Logie Baird: Electro Mechanical television system was invented by John Logie Baird

  • Vannevar Bush: Vannevar Bush develops a partly electronic Difference Engine

  • Vannevar Bush: Vannevar Bush develops a partly electronic Difference Engine

  • Kurt Godel: Kurt Godel publishes a paper on the use of a universal formal language

  • Kurt Godel: Kurt Godel publishes a paper on the use of a universal formal language

  • Alan Turing: Alan Turing develops the concept of a theoretical computing machine

  • Alan Turing: Alan Turing develops the concept of a theoretical computing machine

  • Konrad Zuse: Konrad Zuse creates the Z1 Computer a binary digital computer using punch tape

  • Konrad Zuse: Konrad Zuse creates the Z1 Computer a binary digital computer using punch tape

  • George Stibitz: George Stibitz develops the Complex Number Calculator - a foundation for digital computersHewlett Packard: William Hewlett and David Packard start Hewlett PackardJohn Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry: John Vincent Atanasoff and Cliffo

  • George Stibitz: George Stibitz develops the Complex Number Calculator - a foundation for digital computersHewlett Packard: William Hewlett and David Packard start Hewlett PackardJohn Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry: John Vincent Atanasoff and Cliffo

  • Enigma: Adolf Hitler uses the Enigma encryption machine

  • Howard Aiken & Grace Hopper: Howard Aiken and Grace Hopper designed the MARK series of computers at Harvard University

  • ENIAC: John Presper Eckert & John W. Mauchly: John Presper Eckert & John W. Mauchly develop the ENIAC ( Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) Computer Bug: The term computer ‘bug’ as computer bug was first used by Grace Hopper

  • F.C. Williams: F.C. Williams develops his cathode-ray tube (CRT) storing device the forerunner to random-access memory (RAM)

  • Pilot ACE: Donald Watts Davies joins Alan Turing to build the fastest digital computer in England at the time, the Pilot ACEWilliam Shockley: William Shockley invents the transistor at Bell LabsDouglas Engelbart: Douglas Engelbart theorises on interactive

  • Andrew Donald Booth: Andrew Donald Booth invents magnetic drum memoryFrederic Calland Williams & Tom Kilburn: Frederic Calland Williams & Tom Kilburn develop the SSEM "Small Scale Experimental Machine" digital CRT storage which was soon nicknamed the "B

  • Claude Shannon: Claude Shannon builds the first machine that plays chess

  • Hideo Yamachito: The first electronic computer is created in Japan by Hideo Yamachito. Alan Turing: Alan Turing publishes his paper Computing Machinery and Intelligence which helps create the Turing Test.

  • LEO: T. Raymond Thompson and John Simmons develop the first business computer, the Lyons Electronic Office (LEO) at Lyons Co. UNIVAC: UNIVAC I (UNIVersal Automatic Computer I) was introduced - the first commercial computer made in the United States and

  • The IBM 701 becomes available and a total of 19 are sold to the scientific community.

  • John Backus & IBM: John Backus & IBM develop the FORTRAN Computer Programming Language

  • 1955 Bell Labs introduces its first transistor computer.

  • Optical fiber was invented by Basil Hirschowitz, C. Wilbur Peters, and Lawrence E. Curtiss

  • Sputnik I and Sputnik II: Sputnik I and Sputnik II are launched by the Russians

  • ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) and NASA is formedSilicon chip: The first integrated circuit, or silicon chip, is produced by the US Jack Kilby & Robert Noyce

  • Paul Baran: Paul Baran theorises on the "survivability of communication systems under nuclear attack", digital technology and symbiosis between humans and machines

  • COBOL: The Common Business-Oriented Language (COBOL) programming language is invented.

  • Unimate: General Motors puts the first industrial robot, Unimate, to work in a New Jersey factory.

  • The first computer game: The first computer game Spacewar Computer Game invented BY Steve Russell & MIT

  • The Computer Mouse: Douglas Engelbart invents and patents the first computer mouse (nicknamed the mouse because the tail came out the end)The American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) is developed to standardize data exchange among comput

  • Word processor: IBM introduces the first word processorBASIC: John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz develop Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Language (BASIC)

  • Hypertext: Andries van Dam and Ted Nelson coin the term "hypertext"

  • Floppy Disk: IBM creates the first floppy disk

  • Seymour Cray: Seymour Cray develops the CDC 7600, the first supercomputerGary Starkweather: Gary Starkweather invents the laser printer whilst working with XeroxARPANET: The U.S. Department of Defense sets up the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network

  • RAM: Intel introduces the world's first available dynamic RAM ( random-access memory) chip and the first microprocessor, the Intel 4004.

  • E-mail: E-mail was invented by Ray TomlinsonLiquid Crystal Display ( LCD ): Liquid Crystal Display ( LCD ) was invented by James FergasonPocket calculator: Pocket calculator was invented by Sharp Corporation Floppy Disk: Floppy Disk was invented by Dav

  • First Video Game: Atari releases Pong, the first commercial video gameThe CD: The compact disc is invented in the United States.

  • Robert Metcalfe and David Boggs: Robert Metcalfe creates the Ethernet, a local-area network (LAN) protocol Personal computer: The minicomputer Xerox Alto (1973) was a landmark step in the development of personal computersGateways: Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn d

  • SQL: IBM develops SEQUEL (Structured English Query Language ) now known as SQLWYSIWYG: Charles Simonyi coins the term WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) to describe the ability of being able to display a file or document exactly how it is going to be

  • Portable computers: Altair produces the first portable computerMicrosoft Corporation: The Microsoft Corporation was founded April 4, 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800

  • Apple: Apple Computers was founded Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs

  • Apple Computer’s Apple II, the first personal computer with color graphics, is demonstratedMODEM: Ward Christensen writes the programme "MODEM" allowing two microcomputers to exchange files with each other over a phone line

  • Magnetic tape: The first magnetic tape is developed in the US

  • Over half a million computers are in use in the United States.

  • Paul Allen and Bill Gates: IBM hires Paul Allen and Bill Gates to create an operating system for a new PC. They buy the rights to a simple operating system manufactured by Seattle Computer Products and use it as a template to develop DOS.

  • Microsoft: MS-DOS Computer Operating System increases its success

  • WordPerfect: WordPerfect Corporation introduces WordPerfect 1.0 a word processing program Commodore 64: The Commodore 64 becomes the best-selling computer of all time. SMTP: SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) is introduced

  • More than 10 million computers are in use in the United StatesDomain Name System (DNS): Domain Name System (DNS) pioneered by Jon Postel, Paul Mockapetris and Craig Partridge. Seven 'top-level' domain names are initially introduced: edu, com, gov, mil, ne

  • Apple Macintosh: Apple introduces the Macintosh with mouse and window interfaceCyberspace: William Gibson coins the word cyberspace when he publishes Neuromancer

  • Paul Brainard: Paul Brainard introduces Pagemaker for the Macintosh creating the desktop publishing field. Nintendo: The Nintendo Entertainment System makes its debut.

  • More than 30 million computers are in use in the United States

  • Microsoft introduces Microsoft Works Perl: Larry Wall introduces Perl 1.0

  • Over 45 million PCs are in use in the United States

  • The Internet, World Wide Web & Tim Berners-Lee: Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau propose a 'hypertext' system starting the modern InternetMicrosoft and IBM stop working together to develop operating systems

  • The World Wide Web: The World Wide Web is launched to the public on August 6, 1991

  • At the beginning of the year only 50 World Wide Web servers are known to exist

  • 1994 The World Wide Web Consortium is founded by Tim Berners-Lee to help with the development of common protocols for the evolution of the World Wide WebYAHOO: YAHOO is created in April, 1994.

  • 1995 Java: Java is introducedAmazon: Amazon.com is founded by Jeff BezosEBay: EBay is founded by Pierre OmidyarHotmail: Hotmail is started by Jack Smith and Sabeer Bhatia.

  • WebTV: WebTV is introduced

  • Altavista introduces its free online translator Babel Fish

  • Google: Google is founded by Sergey Brin and Larry Page on September 7, 1998PayPal is founded by Peter Thiel and Max Levchin

  • Xbox: Bill Gates introduces the Xbox on January 7th 2001.

  • Approximately 1 billion PCs been soldPayPal is acquired by eBay

  • September 12: eBay acquires Skype

  • Skype announces that it has over 100 million registered users.