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Edward Cave published a periodical called The Gentleman's Magazine. He invented the word "magazine" from the Arabic word makhazin, which meant storehouse.
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English mathematician Charles Babbage conceives of a steam-driven calculating machine that would be able to compute tables of numbers called the ENIAC
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Invented by Samuel Morse. It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations.
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The first photographic camera developed for commercial manufacture was a daguerreotype camera, built by Alphonse Giroux
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First edition of radio created by Guglielmo Marconi, an Italian inventor.
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The world's first electronic television was created by a 21 year old inventor named Philo Taylor Farnsworth. That inventor lived in a house without electricity until he was age 14.
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Invented by Martin Cooper an employee of Motorola. The phone weighed over a kilogram and was affectionately known as The Brick.
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Dr. O'Sullivan, an Australian inventor found WiFi. It is the same wireless network technology that allows our phones, computers and other technologies to connect to the internet reliably and at fast speeds.
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social media website Mark Zuckerberg built in order to connect Harvard students with one another
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registered by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, three former employees of the American e-commerce company PayPal.
