1940-Present "Technology"

  • Konrad Zuse's Z3,

    Konrad Zuse's Z3,
    The Z3 was an electromechanical computer designed by Konrad Zuse. It was the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computing machine.
  • Kidney Dialysis machine

    Kidney Dialysis machine
    The first practical artificial kidney was developed during World War II by the Dutch physician Willem Kolff.
  • ENIAC

    ENIAC
    ENIAC Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer was the first general-purpose electronic computer. It was a Turing-complete digital computer capable of being reprogrammed to solve a full range of computing problems.
  • The IBM 610 Auto-Point Computer

    The IBM 610 Auto-Point Computer
    The IBM 610 Auto-Point Computer was designed in the portholed attic of Watson Lab at Columbia University by John Lentz
  • The first credit card

    The first credit card
    The first credit card invented by Richard Schneider
  • First Video Recorder

    First Video Recorder
    Charles Ginsburg invented first video recorder
  • Audio Cassette

    Audio Cassette
    The Compact Cassette, also called audio cassette, cassette tape, cassette, or simply tape, is a magnetic tape sound recording format. It was designed originally for dictation, but improvements in fidelity led the Compact Cassette to supplant the Stereo 8-track cartridge and reel-to-reel tape recording in most non-professional applications.[
  • Video Disk

    Video Disk
    LaserDisc (LD) is a home video format and the first commercial optical disc storage medium. Initially licensed, sold, and marketed as MCA DiscoVision (also known as simply "DiscoVision") in North America
  • BASIC

    BASIC
    BASIC is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages whose design philosophy emphasizes ease of use - the name is an acronym from Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.
  • Floppy Disk

    Floppy Disk
    A floppy disk is a disk storage medium composed of a disk of thin and flexible magnetic storage medium, sealed in a rectangular plastic carrier lined with fabric that removes dust particles. They are read and written by a floppy disk drive (FDD).
  • LCD Screen

    LCD Screen
    A liquid crystal display (LCD) is a flat panel display, electronic visual display, or video display that uses the light modulating properties of liquid crystals (LCs).
  • Ethernet

    Ethernet
    Ethernet is a family of computer networking technologies for local area networks (LANs) commercially introduced in 1980. Standardized in IEEE 802.3, Ethernet has largely replaced competing wired LAN technologies.
  • CD-ROM

    CD-ROM
    A CD-ROM an acronym of "Compact Disc Read-only memory") is a pre-pressed compact disc that contains data accessible to, but not writable by, a computer for data storage and music playback.
  • T1100 - Toshiba "first laptop"

    T1100 - Toshiba  "first laptop"
    Toshiba's T1100 doesn't look like much compared to today's computers, but in 1985 this machine sparked a revolution as the first portable IBM-compatible laptop.
  • Windows

    Windows
    The history of Windows dates back to September 1981, when Chase Bishop, a computer scientist, designed the first model of an electronic device and project "Interface Manager" was started. It was announced in November 1983 (after the Apple Lisa, but before the Macintosh) under the name "Windows"
  • The World Wide Web and Internet protocol (HTTP) and WWW language (HTML)

    The World Wide Web and Internet protocol (HTTP) and WWW language (HTML)
    The World Wide Web (abbreviated as WWW or W3,[2] and commonly known as the Web) is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. With a web browser, one can view web pages that may contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia, and navigate between them via hyperlinks.
  • Answering Machine

    Answering Machine
    The answering machine, answerphone or message machine, also known as the telephone answering machine (or TAM) in the UK and some Commonwealth countries), ansaphone, ansafone, or telephone answering device (TAD)
  • Java

    Java
    Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems (which has since merged into Oracle Corporation) and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform.
  • iPod

    iPod
    iPod is a line of portable media players created and marketed by Apple Inc.
  • Virual Keyboard

    Virual Keyboard
    On a desktop PC, one purpose of a virtual keyboard is to provide an alternative input mechanism for users with disabilities who cannot use a physical keyboard.
  • Youtube

    Youtube
    YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos.[