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Computer Technology Timeline Project / Anna R

  • First Programmable Computer

    First Programmable Computer

    Charles Babbage created the first programmable computer in 1833.
  • Vacuum Tubes

    Vacuum Tubes

    John Ambrose Fleming created the vacuum tubes on November 16, 1904.
  • Period: to

    First Electronic Digital Computer

    John Vincent Atanasoff created the first electronic digital computer between 1943 and 1946.
  • First Automatic Computing Engine

    First Automatic Computing Engine

    Alan Turing created the first automatic computing engine in 1945.
  • Transistor

    Transistor

    William Shockley, Walter Houser Brattain, and John Bardeen created the transistor in December of 1947.
  • Artificial Intelligence

    Artificial Intelligence

    John McCarthy created Artificial Intelligence in 1956.
  • Integrated Circuits

    Integrated Circuits

    Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce created the integrated circuit in 1959.
  • Mouse

    Mouse

    Douglas Engelbart and Rene Sommer created the computer mouse in 1968.
  • Microprocessors

    Microprocessors

    Federico Faggin, Marcian (Ted) Hoff, Stanley Mazor, and Masatoshi Shima created the microprocessor in January of 1971.
  • World Wide Web

    World Wide Web

    Tim Berners-Lee created the world wide web in 1989.
  • iPhone

    iPhone

    Steve Jobs and his team created the first iPhone in 2007.
  • Reflection

    The most important invention is the first programmable computer because, without it, our technology wouldn't be so advanced today.