Programming Inventions

By angusdelbridge

  • Analytical Engine

    Analytical Engine
    Charles Babbage invents his Analytical Engine. Regarded as many as the first computer, it has memory and program control capabilities.

  • Electricity

    Electricity
    Electricity is starting to be supplied to US homes

  • Heinrich Hertz

    Heinrich Hertz
    Heinrich Hertz generates radio waves for the first time

  • conveyor

    conveyor
    Henry Ford installs the world’s first moving conveyor belt-based assembly line in his car factory. A Model T can be assembled by people in 93 minutes.

  • The transistor

    The transistor
    The transistor, a vital part of today's electronic systems, was invented

  • electronic computer

    electronic computer
    The first electronic computer is built

  • Silicon solar

    Silicon solar
    1954: Silicon solar cells with 6% efficiency made

  • The inertial navigation system

    The inertial navigation system
    The inertial navigation system is invented which provides accurate information on the position of a body moving in space such as an aeroplane or spacecraft

  • integrated circuit

    integrated circuit
    The integrated circuit is invented. This allows computers to be made much smaller (microcomputers)

  • PC to homes and offices

    PC to homes and offices
    1983: The introduction of the PC to homes and offices and the development of software such as design packages

  • smartphone

    smartphone
    The first smartphone is invented