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British mechanical engineer and mathematician Charles Babbage invents the analytical engine, a precursor to the modern day computer. Using punch cards, it is able to calculate numerical data.
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French artist and chemist Louis Daguerre develops the daguerreotype, an early form of photograph. In contrast to photographic paper, a daguerreotype is not flexible and is rather heavy.The daguerreotype is accurate, detailed and sharp. It has a mirror-like surface and is very fragile.
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American inventor Thomas Edison helps develop the kinetograph a device that enables individual viewing of short films. In it, a strip of film was passed rapidly between a lens and an electric light bulb while the viewer peered through a peephole.
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Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla invents the Tesla coil, an induction coil for radio technology. A Tesla coil is an electrical resonant transformer circuit. It is used to produce high-voltage, low-current, high frequency alternating-current electricity
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The avant-garde art movement Dada introduces new ways of representing reality, including the ready-made (commercially manufactured objects placed in a museum or gallery context), collage, and photomontage. It was Influenced by other avant-garde movements - Cubism, Futurism, Constructivism, and Expressionism - its output was wildly diverse, ranging from performance art to poetry, photography, sculpture, painting, and collage.
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The rise of the radio and movies in the 1920s was to help the emerging mass consumer culture which was part of the time period. The development of these mediums served as outlets for individuals to partake in escapism and understand the full dimensions of fame and celebrity, both of which were acquiring greater significance throughout the decade. The growth of films and radio helped to satiate the desire to partake in the glory fame.
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Scottish inventor John Logie Baird gives the first public demonstration of a television system; Russian-American inventor Vladimir Kozmich Zworykin develops a system of transmitting and receiving information with cathode ray tube (CRT) technology (a fluorescent screen that depicts images with an electronic beam) and American inventor Philo Taylor Farnsworth conceives of the complete operating principles for electronic televisions.
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English mathematician Alan Turing publishes a theoretical description of a digital computer that can solve mathematical problems.
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Hungarian artist Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, associated with the German Bauhaus school that combines crafts and fine arts, creates the Light-Space-Modulator. This lighting equipment installation depicts the play of light and movement.
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Konrad Zuse builds Z1, world's first program-controlled computer. Despite certain mechanical engineering problems it had all the basic ingredients of modern machines, using the binary system and today's standard separation of storage and control.
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In the 1950s, the sale of TV sets and the boom in programming made TV America's favorite source of entertainment. Consider the numbers: in 1946, 7,000 TV sets were sold; in 1948, 172,000 sets were sold; and in 1950, 5 million sets were sold. In 1950, just under 20 percent of American homes contained a TV set.
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The Internet is developed, although it is reserved for university researchers, the military, and the U.S. government’s secret services. The Internet was first invented for military purposes, and then expanded to the purpose of communication among scientists. The invention also came about in part by the increasing need for computers in the 1960s. Packet switching was invented by three different independent research groups around the world.
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Personal computers (PCs) become more accessible and affordable. During the 1980s, they were marketed to consumers as affordable and accessible computers that, for the first time, were intended for the use of a single nontechnical user. These computers were a distinct market segment that typically cost much less than business, scientific or engineering-oriented computers
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The 1980s was the second decade in the industry's history. It was a decade of highs and lows for video games. The decade began amidst a boom in the arcade business with giants like Atari still dominating the market since the late-1970s. Another, the rising influence of the home computer, and a lack of quality in the games themselves lead to an implosion of the North American video game market that nearly destroyed the industry.
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Many Universities start offering programs in New Media and Design
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Open-source software is a type of computer software in which source code is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to study, change, and distribute the software to anyone and for any purpose. Open-source software may be developed in a collaborative public manner.
