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Electricity was discovered by Benjamin Franklin.
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Lady Byron make program for Babbages analytical machine which is thought to be the first computer.
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Films are created by using units of pictures played from a projector. It took about 40-60 days to make film.
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John Baird was a Scottish inventor who made the first public demonstration of T.V. in London which led to a revolution in that area.
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This was the first cartoon with a synced soundtrack. Disney knew that sound was the future of film.
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This machine manipulates symbols on a piece of tape that goes along with the rule. It could simulate any computer algorithm.
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The ACB computer stands for Atanasoff–Berry computer who were the creators. It was the first automated digital computer. It weighed almost 50 tons.
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Bill gates founded Microsoft. He developed his own version of BASIC along with Paul Allen to form the first microcomputer
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The first cell phone was the Motorola DynaTAC 800x. It was invented by Martin Cooper
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The Internet was in vented by Robert E. Kahn and Vint Cerf. Before it became the modern day internet it was called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network).
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The World Wide Web was invented by Tim Berners-Lee who was a British scientist. It was created for sharing between scientists.
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The first portable MP3 player was released by Saehan Information Systems. Later they sold them in Asia.
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Netflix was founded in Scotts Valley CA by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph. Reed got the idea after not wanting to have to worry about late fees for returning movies.
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Google was founded in Menlo Park, CA. Googles CEO at the moment is Sundar Pichai. Google has 103,459 employees.
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Apple comes out with iTunes. It only had about 200,000 songs at first. Only Mac users could transfer to iPads.
