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Period: Jan 1, 724 to
Computer History
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Sep 13, 724
Liang Ling-Can
Liang Ling-Can invents the first fully mechanical clock -
Sep 13, 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 -
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 -
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 -
Apple Macintosh
Apple introduces the Macintosh with mouse and window interface -
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 -
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 -
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 computers -
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) -
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 ACE -
Andrew Donald Booth
Andrew Donald Booth invents magnetic drum memory -
Claude Shannon
Claude Shannon builds the first machine that plays chess -
Hideo Yamachito
The first electronic computer is created in Japan by Hideo Yamachito. -
LEO
T. Raymond Thompson and John Simmons develop the first business computer, the Lyons Electronic Office (LEO) at Lyons Co -
The IBM 701 becomes available and a total of 19 are sold to the scientific community.
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John Backus & IBM
John Backus & IBM develop the FORTRAN Computer Programming Language -
Bell Labs introduces its first transistor computer.
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Optical fiber was invented by Basil Hirschowitz, C. Wilbur Peters, and Lawrence E. Curtiss
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Sputnik I and Sputnik II: Sputnik I and Sputnik II are launched by the Russians
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ARPA
(Advanced Research Projects Agency) and NASA is forme -
Silicon 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. -
General Motors puts the first industrial robot, Unimate, to work in a New Jersey factory.
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) -
Word processor
IBM introduces the first word processor -
BASIC
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 supercomputer -
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 Tomlinson -
First Video Game
Atari releases Pong, the first commercial video game -
Robert Metcalfe and David Boggs
Robert Metcalfe creates the Ethernet, a local-area network (LAN) protocol -
SQL
IBM develops SEQUEL (Structured English Query Language ) now known as SQL -
Portable computers
Altair produces the first portable computer -
Apple
Apple Computers was founded Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs -
MODEM
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
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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 -
Paul Brainard
Paul Brainard introduces Pagemaker for the Macintosh creating the desktop publishing field. -
The Internet, World Wide Web & Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau propose a 'hypertext' system starting the modern Internet -
The World Wide Web
The World Wide Web is launched to the public on August 6, 1991 -
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 Web
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Java
Java is introduced -
WebTV
WebTV is introduced -
WebTV is introduced
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Google
Google is founded by Sergey Brin and Larry Page on September 7, 1998 -
Xbox
Bill Gates introduces the Xbox on January 7th 2001 -
Approximately 1 billion PCs been sold
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September 12: eBay acquires Skype
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Skype
announces that it has over 100 million registered users
