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The Jacquard loom is a mechanical loom, invented by Joseph Marie Jacquard in 1801, that simplifies the process of manufacturing textiles with complex patterns such as brocade, damask, and matelasse.
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First Freely Programbale device
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Colossus, a British computer used for code-breaking, is operational by December of 1943. ENIAC
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Bell Telephone Laboratories develops the transistor in 1947. Even though a computer does not use transistors, the invention of this device influenced the development of computers.
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UNIVAC, the Universal Automatic Computer is developed in 1951. It can store 12,000 digits in random access mercury-delay lines.
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First langauge programming invented at IBM
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Texas Instruments and Fairchild semiconductor both announce the integrated circuit in 1959.
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Moore's law is the observation that over the history of computing hardware, the number of transistors on integrated circuits doubles approximately every two years. The period often quoted as "18 months" is due to Intel executive David House, who predicted that period for a doubling in chip performance (being a combination of the effect of more transistors and their being faster)
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Doug Engelbart demonstrates in 1968 a word processor, an early hypertext system and a collaborative application: three now common computer applications.
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Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce found Intel in 1968
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The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was the world's first operational packet switching network, the first network to implement TCP/IP, and the progenitor of what was to become the global Internet.
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The first international connections to ARPANET are established. ARPANET later became the basis for what we now call the Internet.
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Gary Kildall writes PL/M, the first high-level programming language for the Intel microprocessor.
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Jonathan A. Titus designs the Mark-8, "Your Personal Minicomputer," according to the July, 1974 cover of Radio-Electronics.
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Metcalfe's law states that the value of a telecommunications network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users of the system (n2). First formulated in this form by George Gilder in 1993, and attributed to Robert Metcalfe in regard to Ethernet, Metcalfe's law was originally presented, circa 1980, not in terms of users, but rather of "compatible communicating devices"
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IBM releases First Laptop
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SEVERE TIRE DAMAGE
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Google is invented in Menlo Park, California.
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Intel releases very limited supplies of the 1 GHz Pentium III chip.
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The first iPhone was introduced by Apple.
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The first version of Android was introduced by Verizon Wireless.[
