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In France, Joseph Marie Jacquard invents a loom that uses punched wooden cards to automatically weave fabric designs.
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Michael Faraday discovers what he called "the electromagnetic rotation". This is the beginning of most of our technology that uses motors. Some examples are: fans, and car engines, which led to our technology today, like washing machines, and dishwashers.
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Alexander Graham Bell made the first telephone. It is said that his assistant, Mr. Watson, needed his help. He called for Mr. Bell. Bell heard Watson over the wire. That was the first phone call.
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Guglielmo Marconi: an Italian inventor, proved the feasibility of radio communication. He sent and received his first radio signal in Italy in 1895. By 1899 he flashed the first wireless signal across the English Channel and two years later received the letter "S", telegraphed from England to Newfoundland.
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According to the Grolier Encyclopedia, the electronic television was successfully displayed for the first time on Sept. 7, 1927 in San Francisco. This predecessor of the modern television was invented by Philo Taylor Farnsworth, a 21-year-old Utah native.
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Alan Turing presents the notion of a universal machine, later called the Turing machine, capable of computing anything that is computable. The central concept of the modern computer was based on his ideas.
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Alan Shugart leads a team of IBM engineers who invent the “floppy disk,” allowing data to be shared among computers.
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Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak start Apple Computers on April Fool’s Day and roll out the Apple I, the first computer with a single-circuit board.
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: Radio Shack's initial production run of the TRS-80 was just 3,000. It sold like crazy. For the first time, non-geeks could write programs and make a computer do what they wished.
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Cell Phones were invented by Martin Cooper in 1973. The first commercial cell phone was not sold until 1979 though. Cell phones were not available in the United States until 1983.
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Microsoft announces Windows, its response to Apple’s GUI. Commodore unveils the Amiga 1000, which features advanced audio and video capabilities.
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Sergey Brin and Larry Page develop the Google search engine at Stanford University.
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YouTube, a video sharing service, is founded. Google acquires Android, a Linux-based mobile phone operating system.
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On January 9, 2007, Steve Jobs announced the iPhone at the Macworld convention, receiving substantial media attention. Jobs announced that the first iPhone would be released later that year. On June 29, 2007, the first iPhone was released.
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Apple releases the Apple Watch. Microsoft releases Windows 10.
