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Frenchmen, Blaise Pascal invented an adding machine, or a caluculator
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Christiaan Huygens develops the pendulum clock (using Galileo's earlier discovery that a swinging pendulum can be used to keep time).
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Charles Wheatstone and William Cooke, in England, and Samuel Morse, in the United States, develop the electric telegraph (a forerunner of the telephone).
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The first freely programmable computer came into play.
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The transistor was invented by Bell Telephone Company. It wasn't a computer in itself'but it was a vital computer component.
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The first bank computers were invented. They used MICR'or magnetic ink character recognition'to read checks.
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Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce invented the integrated circuit'better known as the computer chip.
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First medium-sized computer
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Spacewar games invented the first computer video games.http://www.softschools.com/timelines/computer_history_timeline/20/
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Douglas Engelbart invented the computer mouse. He called it the mouse because the cord came out the back like a tail.
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The first internet was called ARPANET. The original internet wasn't used very widely because not many people had access to it.
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Bill Gates worked with Paul Allen to develop BASIC for the Altair 8800.
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IBM and Apple were just a couple of the brands that put out the first personal computers.http://www.softschools.com/timelines/computer_history_timeline/20/
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1977 saw the invention of both the Apple II and the famous rainbow Apple logo.
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This next iteration of the Apple computer for business was created primarily to compete with business computing companies like IBM.
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The Apple IIe keyboard was built in to the computer and did away with the numeric keypad.
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The Apple IIc represented Apple’s first attempt at both a portable computer and “out-of-the-box” functionality. The only problem with classifying the IIc as a “portable” computer is the fact that it lacked a portable power supply.
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The Plus version of the Macintosh originally featured the same beige colour as the original Macintosh, but in 1987 was changed to the warm gray Platinum colour that would characterize Apple computers for years to come.
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Microsoft made a program that was compatible with IBM computers. This let more people come into contact with the now well-known program.
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Tim Berners Less came up with the World Wide Web. He started a computer revolution.
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The first laptop computer'the Power Book 100'came out. There were other portable computers before this'but they were very clunky and expensive.
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the first internet convention was held.http://www.softschools.com/timelines/computer_history_timeline/20/
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Nokia introduced a phone that had internet capabilities. This started a revolution of devices that were small'portable computers.
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The above model set the standard for the rest of the iMac G3’s with a slot-loading CD ROM rather than a tray-loading model.
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The first ever iPhone was unveiled by Steve Jobs in 2007 at the Macworld Conference and Expo in San Fransansisco. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/apple/4126366/Macworld-2009-Macworld-through-the-years.html
