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Nikola Tesla develops frequency hopping, now known as spread spectrum.
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Panasonic is founded.
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The first Radio Shack store is open.
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The FCC is established. The U.S. Communication Act is established shorty after.
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Iowa State Colleges John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry begin work on creating the binary-based ABC (Atanasoft-Berry Computer). Considered by most to be the first electronic digital computer.
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Alec Reeves develops PCM (used for cd's, dvd's and blu-ray discs)
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Chester Carlson produces first electrophotographic image October 22, 1938, which later becomes the Xerox machine.
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George Stibitz completes the Complex Number Calculator capable of adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing complex numbers. This device provides a foundation for digital computers.
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German Konrad Zuse finishes the Z3, a fully program-operational calculating machine. The computer is publically introduced in Berlin May 12, 1941.
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ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer), the first general-purpose electronic digital calculator begins to be constructed. This computer by most is considered to be the first electronic computer.
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The term bug as computer bug was termed by Grace Hopper when programming the MARK II.
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Claude Shannon builds the first machine that plays chess at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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John McCarthy coins the term Artificial Intelligence (AI) in 1955 at Dartmouth University.
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William Higinbotham created the first video game called: Tennis for Two.
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AT&T introduces the dataphone and the first known MODEM.
