Technology History Project

By Alex214
  • The Complex Number Calculator

    The Complex Number Calculator
    SourceBell Lab’s George Stibitz created a relay-based calculator, the Model K (named after the kitchen table on which he built it). Stibitz then led a team that produced the Complex Number Calculator (CNC), capable of performing calculations on complex numbers. In 1940, he appeared at an American Mathematical Society conference at Dartmouth College and performed calculations remotely on the CNC in New York City – the first demonstration of remote access computing.
  • Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator

    Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator
    sourceBM’s SSEC was the first operating computer to use both electronic computation and stored instructions — and was the first computer to run stored programs (although it wasn’t fully electronic). Measuring 25 feet by 40 feet, the SSEC was capable of 50 multiplications per minute.
  • Fortran

    Fortran
    sourceFormula Translation, is the oldest language still in use. developed to perform high level scientific,mathematical and statistical computation.
  • Basic - programming language

    Basic - programming language
    sourceBASIC-1964-In computer programming, BASIC (an acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is a family of high-level programming languages. The original BASIC was designed in 1964 by John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, USA to provide computer access to non-science students.
  • Pascal Programming language

    Pascal Programming language
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    PASCAL-1968-Pascal is an influential imperative and procedural programming language, designed in 1968/9 and published in 1970 by Niklaus Wirth as a small and efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring.
  • Arpanet- FIrst Internet Invented

    Arpanet- FIrst Internet Invented
    SourceThe Arpanet Was The First Network And Was Developed by U.S. Department of Defense. The Network Eventually Turned Into Today's Internet And Uses TCP/IP Protocol, Which We Still Use Today.
  • Kenbak-1

     Kenbak-1
    sourceThe Kenbak-1 is considered to be the first personal computer (although the Datapoint 2200 may have been invented or sold first, precise dates don’t exist). Invented by John Blankenbaker of the Kenbak Corp., it used off-the-shelf components, had a 256-byte memory, and sold for $750. To program it, users entered pure machine code with switches and buttons and received output through a series of lights. The company folde
  • Atatri

    Atatri
    sourceAtari Incorporated – Co-founders Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney embark on their new venture. Their first engineer hired was Allan Alcorn who designed Pong as simply a test, but it turned out to be the company’s first shipped product.
  • C++ programming lnguage

    C++ programming lnguage
    sourceC++-1979-is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as a "middle-level" language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level language features. It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell Labs as an enhancement to the C language and originally named C with Classes. It was renamed C++ in 1983.
  • Osborne 1 – The First Laptop Computer

     Osborne 1 – The First Laptop Computer
    sourceOsborne 1 is usually considered to be the first true portable computer. Adam Osborne, an ex-book publisher founded Osborne Computer and produced the Osborne 1 in 1981. It weighed 24 pounds and cost $1795. The Osborne 1 came with a five-inch screen, modem port, two 5 1/4 floppy drives, a large collection of bundled software programs, and a battery pack.
  • First wifi was invented

    First wifi was invented
    sourceIn 1991, NCR Corporation with AT&T Corporation invented the precursor to 802.11, intended for use in cashier systems. The first wireless products were under the name WaveLAN.
  • playtation

    playtation
    sourceis a series of video game consoles created and developed by Sony Computer Entertainment . The brand was first introduced on December 3, 1994 in Japan with the launch of the original PlayStation console.[1] It now consists of four home consoles, as well as a media center, an online service, a line of controllers, two handhelds and a phone, as well as multiple magazines.
  • Java programming language

    Java programming language
    sourceJava (Indonesian: Jawa; Javanese: ꦗꦮ) is an island of Indonesia. With a population of 150 million, Java is home to 51 percent of the Indonesian population, and is the most populous island on Earth. The Indonesian capital city, Jakarta, is located on western Java. Much of Indonesian history took place on Java. It was the center of powerful Hindu-Buddhist empires, the Islamic sultanates, and the core of the colonial Dutch East Indies. Java wa
  • Tianhe-2

    Tianhe-2
    sourceReckon your quad-core PC is pretty powerful? The National Super Computer Center in Guangzhou, China, has a machine with a staggering 3,120,000 cores delivering 33.86 petaFLOPs. The machine was developed by China's National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) and as you might expect the defense side of things is shrouded in secrecy, but Chinese media reports say it'll also be used to predict earthquakes, for climate modeling and to help China's car industry