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John Ambrose Fleming invents Vaccum Tubes
A vacuum tube is a device that controls electric current flow in a high vacuum between electrodes to which an electric potential difference has been applied. -
Konrad Zuse invents the 1st Programmable Computer
It was a binary electrically driven mechanical calculator with limited programmability, reading instructions from punched celluloid film. -
Presper Eckert, Jr., John William Mauchly, and their associates at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering of the University of Pennsylvania invents the 1st electronic digital computer
It was primarily used to calculate artillery firing tables for the United States Army's Ballistic Research Laboratory. -
John Bardeen, William Shockley, and Walter Brattain invents the Transistors
It is a semiconductor device used to amplify or switch electronic signals and electrical power -
Charles babbage invents the 1st automatic computing engines
It would have had vastly more memory than any of the other early computers, as well as being faster -
John McCarthy invents Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence machines (or computers) that mimic "cognitive" functions that humans associate with the human mind, such as "learning" and "problem-solving". -
Jack Kilby, Masatoshi Shima, and Robert Noyce invent Integrated circuits
It is a set of electronic circuits on one small flat piece (or "chip") of semiconductor material that is normally silicon. -
Douglas Engelbart, and René Sommer invent The mouse
It is a hand-held pointing device that detects two-dimensional motion relative to a surface. -
Marcian Hoff,Federico Faggin,Masatoshi ,and Shima Stanley Mazor invent the Microprocessors
It is an electronic component that is used by a computer to do its work. -
Tim Berners-Lee, Robert Cailliau invent The worldwide web
It is an information system where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators (URLs, which may be interlinked by hypertext, and are accessible over the Internet. -
Steve Jobs and his team at Apple invents The iPhone
It is a line of touchscreen-based smartphones designed and marketed by Apple Inc -
Reflection
I think that the iPhone was the most important invention because we use it for most of our communication around the world and it has a lot of apps that we use instead of having to carry a map, or have a GPS, a camera, or a calculator around.
