Technology History Project

By tonyg14
  • Havard Mark 1

    Havard Mark 1

    Source The HAvard Mark 1 was made by IBM. The use of it is for a calculater as long as fifty feet and had thousnads of parts. Only soon that mathematical tables would be on computers.
  • ENIAC

    ENIAC

    Source The Eniac was the origin of the memory unit. Which we still use today in modern technology.
  • Elmer and Elsie Robots

    Elmer and Elsie Robots

    [Source ](chrome-extension://oemmndcbldboiebfnladdacbdfmadadm/http://www.robotshop.com/media/files/pdf/timeline.pdf)Grey Walter created his first robots; Elmer and Elsie, also known as the turtle robots. The robots were capable of finding their charging station when their battery power ran low.
  • The Origin of Tic Tac Toe

    The Origin of Tic Tac Toe

    Source A. S. Douglass creates OXO (a game known as noughts and crosses in the United Kingdom and tic-tac-toe in the United States) on Cambridge's EDSAC computer as part of his research on human-computer interactions.
  • Computer Checkers

    Computer Checkers

    Source Arthur Samuel demonstrates his computer checkers program, written on an IBM-701, on national television. Six years later the program defeats a checkers master.
  • The Robotics Institute

    The Robotics Institute

    [Source ](chrome-extension://oemmndcbldboiebfnladdacbdfmadadm/http://www.robotshop.com/media/files/pdf/timeline.pdf)The robotics was established by Carnegie Mellon
  • First internet - Arpanet

    First internet - Arpanet

    Source The Arpanat was the first network that connected computers and was developed by the U.S. military. The protocol TCP/IP was first developed to communicate and is still used today.
  • First Mobile Robot

    First Mobile Robot

    Source Shakey was introduced as the first mobile robot controlled by artificial intellence. It was produced by SRI International.
  • The WABOT I

    The WABOT I

    [Source ](chrome-extension://oemmndcbldboiebfnladdacbdfmadadm/http://www.robotshop.com/media/files/pdf/timeline.pdf)In 1973 Ichiro Kato created WABOT I which was the first full-scale anthropomorphic robot in the world. It had a system for controlling limbs, vision, and conversation!
  • The Commodore PET

    The Commodore PET

    Source The Commodore PET was one of the first of several computers made. This computer only had a 8 kilobytes of memory, two built-in cassette drives, and a membrane "chiclet" keyboard.
  • The First Arm Robot

    The First Arm Robot

    Source Takeo Kanade created the first "direct drive arm" in 1981. The first of its kind, the arm's motors were contained within the robot itself, eliminating long transmissions. So now we still use the robot arm today.
  • Aquarobot

    Aquarobot

    [Source ](chrome-extension://oemmndcbldboiebfnladdacbdfmadadm/http://www.robotshop.com/media/files/pdf/timeline.pdf)It was a walking robot for undersea use, was created at the Robotics Laboratory at the Ministry of Transport in Japan
  • Bluetooth Invented

    Bluetooth Invented

    Source The Bluetooth was made in 1994 by a group of Swedish workers. Then later on then they showed this idea to IBM and Toshiba. NOw today we use it.
  • RoboTuna

    RoboTuna

    [Source ](chrome-extension://oemmndcbldboiebfnladdacbdfmadadm/http://www.robotshop.com/media/files/pdf/timeline.pdf)RoboTuna was created by David Barrett at MIT. The robot was used to study how fish swim.
  • Honda P3

    Honda P3

    [Source ](chrome-extension://oemmndcbldboiebfnladdacbdfmadadm/http://www.robotshop.com/media/files/pdf/timeline.pdf)Honda created the P3, the second major step in creating their ASIMO. The P3 was Honda’s first completely autonomous humanoid robot.