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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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The Arithmometer was the first mass-produced calculator invented by Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar
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Charles Babbage designs his first mechanical computer
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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: 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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Radio signals were invented by Guglielmo Marconi
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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 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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Douglas Engelbart theorises on interactive computing with keyboard and screen display instead of on punchcards
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Frederic Calland Williams & Tom Kilburn develop the SSEM "Small Scale Experimental Machine" digital CRT storage which was soon nicknamed the "Baby"
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Claude Shannon builds the first machine that plays chess
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Alan Turing publishes his paper Computing Machinery and Intelligence which helps create the Turing Test.
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UNIVAC I (UNIVersal Automatic Computer I) was introduced - the first commercial computer made in the United States and designed principally by John Presper Eckert & John W. Mauchly
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The IBM 701 becomes available and a total of 19 are sold to the scientific community.
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John Backus & IBM develop the FORTRAN Computer Programming Language
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Sputnik I and Sputnik II: Sputnik I and Sputnik II are launched by the Russians
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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
Gary Starkweather invents the laser printer whilst working with Xerox
The U.S. Department of Defense sets up the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET ) this network was the first building blocks to what the internet is today but originally with the intention of creating a computer network that could withstand any type of disaster. -
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
Liquid Crystal Display ( LCD ): Liquid Crystal Display ( LCD ) was invented by James Fergason Pocket calculator was invented by Sharp Corporation Floppy Disk was invented by David Noble with IBM - Nicknamed the "Floppy" for its flexibility. -
Atari releases Pong, the first commercial video game
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Robert Metcalfe creates the Ethernet, a local-area network (LAN) protocol
The minicomputer Xerox Alto (1973) was a landmark step in the development of personal computers
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IBM develops SEQUEL (Structured English Query Language ) now known as SQL
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 printed or viewed -
Altair produces the first portable computer
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 Computers was founded Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs
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Apple Computer’s Apple II, the first personal computer with color graphics, is demonstrated
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The first magnetic tape is developed in the US
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Over half a million computers are in use in the United States.
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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
The Commodore 64 becomes the best-selling computer of all time. SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) is introduced -
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, net, org and int. Windows: Microsoft Windows introduced eliminating the need for a user to have to type each command, like MS-DOS, by using a mouse to navigate through drop-down menus, tabs and icons
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Apple introduces the Macintosh with mouse and window interface
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Paul Brainard introduces Pagemaker for the Macintosh creating the desktop publishing field. The Nintendo Entertainment System makes its debut.
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More than 30 million computers are in use in the United States.
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Microsoft introduces Microsoft Works
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Over 45 million PCs are in use in the United States.
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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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At the beginning of the year only 50 World Wide Web servers are known to exist
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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
YAHOO: YAHOO is created in April, 1994. -
Java is introduced
Amazon.com is founded by Jeff Bezos
EBay is founded by Pierre Omidyar
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Altavista introduces its free online translator Babel Fish
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Google is founded by Sergey Brin and Larry Page
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Bill Gates introduces the Xbox on January 7th 2001.
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Approximately 1 billion PCs been sold
PayPal is acquired by eBay -
eBay acquires Skype
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Skype announces that it has over 100 million registered users.
