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Liang Ling-Can invents the first fully mechanical clock
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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
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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
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William Oughtred develops slide rules
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Invented by Wilhelm Schickard
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Blaise Pascal invents the the "Pascaline", a mechanical adding machine
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Gottfried Leibniz is known as one of the founding fathers of calculus
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Joseph-Marie Jacquard invents an automatic loom controlled by punched cards
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Joseph-Marie Jacquard invents an automatic loom controlled by punched cards
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The Arithmometer was the first mass-produced calculator invented by Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar
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The Analytical Engine was invented by Charles Babbage
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Samuel Morse invents Morse code
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Boolean algebra is invented by George Boole
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Per Georg Scheutz and his son Edvard invent the Tabulating Machine
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William Stanley Jevons designs a practical logic machine
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Ramon Verea invents a fast calculator with an internal multiplication table
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Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone called the Photophone
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The Comptometer is an invention of Dorr E. Felt which is operated by pressing keys
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Apple introduces the Macintosh with mouse and window interface
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Herman Hollerith invents a counting machine which increment mechanical counters
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Radio signals were invented by Guglielmo Marconi
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Herman Hollerith forms the Tabulating Machine Company which later becomes IBM
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Remote control was invented by Nikola Tesla
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Lee De Forest invents the electronic tube
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IBM is formed on June 15, 1911
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Television Electronic was invented by Philo Farnsworth
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Electro Mechanical television system was invented by John Logie Baird
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Vannevar Bush develops a partly electronic Difference Engine
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Kurt Godel publishes a paper on the use of a universal formal language
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Alan Turing develops the concept of a theoretical computing machine
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Konrad Zuse creates the Z1 Computer a binary digital computer using punch tape
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George Stibitz develops the Complex Number Calculator - a foundation for digital computers
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Adolf Hitler uses the Enigma encryption machine
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Howard Aiken and Grace Hopper designed the MARK series of computers at Harvard University
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John Presper Eckert & John W. Mauchly: John Presper Eckert & John W. Mauchly develop the ENIAC ( Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer)
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F.C. Williams develops his cathode-ray tube (CRT) storing device the forerunner to random-access memory (RAM)
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Donald Watts Davies joins Alan Turing to build the fastest digital computer in England at the time, the Pilot ACE
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Andrew Donald Booth invents magnetic drum memory
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Claude Shannon builds the first machine that plays chess
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The first electronic computer is created in Japan by Hideo Yamachito.
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T. Raymond Thompson and John Simmons develop the first business computer, the Lyons Electronic Office (LEO) at Lyons Co
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John Backus & IBM develop the FORTRAN Computer Programming Language
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(Advanced Research Projects Agency) and NASA is forme
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The first integrated circuit, or silicon chip, is produced by the US Jack Kilby & Robert Noyce
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Paul Baran theorises on the "survivability of communication systems under nuclear attack", digital technology and symbiosis between humans and machines
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The Common Business-Oriented Language (COBOL) programming language is invented.
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General Motors puts the first industrial robot, Unimate, to work in a New Jersey factory.
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The first computer game Spacewar Computer Game invented BY Steve Russell & MIT
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Douglas Engelbart invents and patents the first computer mouse (nicknamed the mouse because the tail came out the end)
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IBM introduces the first word processor
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John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz develop Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Language (BASIC)
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Andries van Dam and Ted Nelson coin the term "hypertext"
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IBM creates the first floppy disk
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Seymour Cray develops the CDC 7600, the first supercomputer
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Intel introduces the world's first available dynamic RAM ( random-access memory) chip and the first microprocessor, the Intel 4004
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E-mail was invented by Ray Tomlinson
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Atari releases Pong, the first commercial video game
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Robert Metcalfe creates the Ethernet, a local-area network (LAN) protocol
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IBM develops SEQUEL (Structured English Query Language ) now known as SQL
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Altair produces the first portable computer
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Apple Computers was founded Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs
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Ward Christensen writes the programme "MODEM" allowing two microcomputers to exchange files with each other over a phone line
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The first magnetic tape is developed in the US
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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.
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MS-DOS Computer Operating System increases its success
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WordPerfect Corporation introduces WordPerfect 1.0 a word processing program
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Paul Brainard introduces Pagemaker for the Macintosh creating the desktop publishing field.
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Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau propose a 'hypertext' system starting the modern Internet
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The World Wide Web is launched to the public on August 6, 1991
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Java is introduced
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WebTV is introduced
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Google is founded by Sergey Brin and Larry Page on September 7, 1998
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Bill Gates introduces the Xbox on January 7th 2001
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announces that it has over 100 million registered users
