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Jan 1, 1026
Ibn-al-Haytham
Ibn-al-Haytham was the first to study the phenomenon of the pinhole camera. The concept of a pinhole camera is simple: a box with a tiny hole on one side is able to project an image of whatever is outside onto a side of the box on the inside. He was able to build these pinhole cameras hundreds of years -
Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage was the first to introduce us to mechanical genaral-purpose of the computer system. He invented Analytical Engine that stored memory in the form of conditional branching and loops. Sadly Babbage was never able to complete this construction due to conflicts with his chief engineer and funding purposes. -
James Clerk Maxwell
In 1861, Maxwell presented the world's first colour photograph – of a tartan ribbon.Three photos were taken, each time with a different colour filter over the lens.Maxwell developed the images then projected them onto a screen with three different projectors. Each used the same colour filter to take its image. The three images formed a full colour image. -
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell is best known as the inventor of the telephone. He transmitted the human voice by means of an electric current. Though he is credited with its invention, Alexander Graham Bell refused to have a telephone in his study, fearing it would distract him from his scientific work. -
George Eastman
George Eastman was an American innovator that founded and popularized the use of roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream. His company slogan was "You press the button, we do the rest," which meant the camera was sent in to the company after the 100 exposures on the roll of film had been used; they developed it and sent it back to the customer. -
John Logie Baird
John Logie Baird was a Scottish engineer, innovator, one of the inventors of the mechanical television, demonstrating the first working television system on 26 January 1926 before 50 scientists in an attic room in central London. -
Philo Taylor Farnsworth
Philo Taylor Farnsworth was an American inventor and television pioneer. He made many contributions that were crucial to the early development of all-electronic television. -
Alan Turing
In 1950 he develops the Turing Test, an attempt to define a standard for a machine to be called intelligent. Alan Turing alone grasped everything that was to change computing completely after that date: above all he understood the universality inherent in the stored-program computer. He knew there could be just one machine for all tasks. -
Robert Adler
Rober Adler was a co-inventor of a wireless remote control device, which encouraged the proliferation of couch potatoes, shortened the attention span of viewers and prompted innumerable household disputes over who would control the television. -
Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. Visitors could learn more about the things they search for and also in return they can add their own input if they want, by creating their own website. It was a step of generalising and going to a higher level of abstraction.
