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The Microsoft Windows Epoch time is set to start on January 1, 1601. https://www.computerhope.com/history/1951.htm
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Frances Blaise Pascal invents a machine, called the Pascaline, that can add, subtract, and carry between digits. https://www.computerhope.com/history/1951.htm
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Gottfried Leibniz introduces the Step Reckoner, a device that can multiply, divide, and evaluate square roots.https://www.computerhope.com/history/1951.htm
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The first writing device (similar to a typewriter) to be patented is patented by Henry Mill in London England.https://www.computerhope.com/history/1951.htm
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The first telegraph is built.https://www.computerhope.com/history/1951.htm
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Claude Chappe invents a semaphore line, a method of communicating over long distances.https://www.computerhope.com/history/1951.htm
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Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar creates the "Arithometer," the first reliable, useful, and commercially successful calculating machine. The calculator could not only add but also subtract, multiply, and divide.https://www.computerhope.com/history/1951.htm
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The earliest known surviving photograph is taken by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in 1825 of a view of a courtyard from his window.
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On October 21, 1832, Pavel Schilling became the first to transmit signals between two telegraphs in different rooms of his apartment.
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Charles Babbage first purposed the Analytical Engine, which was the first computer to use punch cards as memory and a way to program the computer.
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The first known permanent color photograph is taken of a Tartan Ribbon by the photographer Thomas Sutton.https://www.computerhope.com/history/1951.htm
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The first successful Trans-Atlantic cable is laid from Ireland to Newfoundland. https://www.computerhope.com/history/1951.htm
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The first radio message was sent across the Atlantic Ocean in Morse code.https://www.computerhope.com/history/1951.htm
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Reginald Fessenden made the first AM radio broadcast.https://www.computerhope.com/history/1951.htm
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G. N. Lewis began work on the lithium battery.https://www.computerhope.com/history/1951.htm
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The first telephone call was made across the continent.https://www.computerhope.com/history/1951.htm
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Nikon was founded in 1917.
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First radio broadcasting began in United States, Pittsburgh, PA.
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The first joystick was invented by C.B. Mirick at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory.
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The first patent for the semiconductor transistor was created
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Philo Taylor Farnsworth became the first person to successfully transmit a TV signal on September 7, 1927.
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The first atomic clock was built in 1949 at the U.S. National Bureau of Standards.
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November 3,2017 apple created the Iphone X for the 10th anniversary for the company.
