21st century technology

By @lanH

  • First camera

    http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/stilphotography.htmOn a summer day in 1827, Joseph Nicephore Niepce made the first photographic image with a camera obscura . Prior to Niepce people just used the camera obscura for viewing or drawing purposes not for making photographs. Joseph Nicephore Niepce's heliographs or sun prints as they were called were the prototype for the modern photograph, by letting light draw the picture.

  • first projector

    first projectorThe first machine patented in the United States that showed animated pictures or movies was a device called the "wheel of life" or "zoopraxiscope". Patented in 1867 by William Lincoln, moving drawings or photographs were watched through a slit in the zoopraxiscope.

  • First telephone

    http://www.history.com/Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), the Scottish-born American scientist best known as the inventor of the telephone, worked at a school for the deaf while attempting to invent a machine that would transmit sound by electricity. Bell was granted the first official patent for his telephone in March 1876

  • Microsoft

    http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/history#T1=era0In June 1980, Gates and Allen hire Gates’ former Harvard classmate Steve Ballmer to help run the company. The next month, IBM approaches Microsoft about a project code-named "Chess." In response, Microsoft focuses on a new operating system—the software that manages, or runs, the computer hardware and also serves to bridge the gap between the computer hardware and programs, such as a word processor. It’s the foundation on which computer programs can run. They name their new operating system "MS‑D

  • First car in the world

    http://jalopnik.com/5816040/who-invented-the-worlds-very-first-carWho invented the first car? If we're talking about the first modern automobile, then it's Karl Benz in 1886. But long before him, there were strange forerunners to the today's cars, including toys for emperors, steam-powered artillery carriers, and clanking, creaking British buses.

  • First antenna

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antenna_(radio)The first antennas were built in 1888 by German physicist Heinrich Hertz in his pioneering experiments to prove the existence of electromagnetic waves predicted by the theory of James Clerk Maxwell. Hertz placed dipole antennas at the focal point of parabolic reflectors for both transmitting and receiving.

  • First A/c

    http://www.carrier.com/carrier/en/us/about/willis-carrier/On July 17, 1902, Willis Haviland Carrier designed the first modern air-conditioning system, launching an industry that would fundamentally improve the way we live, work and play.

  • First printer

    http://www.life123.com/technology/computer-hardware/all-in-one-printers/who-invented-the-printer.shtmlWho invented the printer? While many people developed the technology used for different types of printers, their work is built on concepts pioneered by Chester Carlson in 1938. Carlson invented electrophotography, a dry printing process. This process is commonly known as Xerox, after the company that first invested in Chester Carlson's idea.

  • First computer

    ENIACIn 1946, John Mauchly and John Presper Eckert developed the ENIAC I (Electrical Numerical Integrator And Calculator). The American military sponsored their research; the army needed a computer for calculating artillery-firing tables, the settings used for different weapons under varied conditions for target accuracy.

  • First satilite

    http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/jplhistory/early/firstsatellites.phpJuly 1957 marked the beginning of the International Geophysical Year, when scientists around the world planned to jointly observe various scientific phenomena. It was during this period of scientific cooperation that the Soviet Union stunned the world with the launch of Sputnik, the first satellite ever. On October 4, 1957, the USSR put into orbit a tiny sphere with a radio transmitter that beeped its way into history. The JPL community was surprised that the Soviets could have both a successful

  • The first mouse created

    http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch001083.htmThe computer mouse as we know it today was invented and developed by Douglas Engelbart, with the assistance of Bill English, during the 1960's and was patented on November 17, 1970.

  • Floppy Disk

    http://inventors.about.com/od/computersandinternet/a/FloppyDisk.htmIn 1971, IBM introduced the first "memory disk", as it was called then, or the "floppy disk" as it is known today.The first floppy was an 8-inch flexible plastic disk coated with magnetic iron oxide; computer data was written to and read from the disk's surface.

  • Fist laptop

    http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bllaptop.htmDesigned in 1979 by a Briton, William Moggridge, for Grid Systems Corporation, the Grid Compass was one fifth the weight of any model equivalent in performance and was used by NASA on the space shuttle program in the early 1980's. A 340K byte bubble memory lap-top computer with die-cast magnesium case and folding electroluminescent graphics display screen.

  • Space shuttle

    http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/the_shuttle/Sinc 1981, NASA space shuttles have been rocketing from the Florida coast into Earth orbit. The five orbiters — Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour — have flown more than 130 times, carrying over 350 people into space and travelling more than half a billion miles, more than enough to reach Jupiter. Designed to return to Earth and land like a giant glider, the shuttle was the world's first reusable space vehicle. More than all of that, though, the shuttle program expanded the

  • First webcam

    http://gizmodo.com/5993583/the-worlds-first-webcam-was-created-to-check-a-coffee-pot-remotelyNobody likes arriving at an empty coffee pot. Especially computer scientists at Cambridge University—which is why, back in 1991, a team of them invented the world's first webcam to keep an eye on coffee levels from their desks.

  • Fist smart phone

    http://time.com/3137005/first-smartphone-ibm-simon/Simon, long referenced as the first smartphone. It went on sale to the public on August 16, 1994 and packed a touchscreen, email capability and more, paving the way for our modern-day wondergadgets.

  • USB Drive

    USB driveNAND flash memory was developed in the mid 80′s by Toshiba, and USB flash drives were developed in the late 90′s. There is still some dispute about who created the first version, but most credit M-Systems Company, which was eventually bought by Sandisk. The break-though was the ability to connect flash memory to a computer without the need for drivers or special software.

  • First Xbox

    xbox The original Xbox was released on November 15, 2001 in North America, February 22, 2002 in Japan, and March 14, 2002 in Australia and Europe. It was Microsoft's first foray into the gaming console market.

  • Facebook

    http://www.businessinsider.com/how-facebook-was-founded-2010-3The origins of Facebook have been in dispute since the very week a 19-year-old Mark Zuckerberg launched the site as a Harvard sophomore on February 4, 2004.

  • Youtube first created

    you tube first created YouTube was invented by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim out of a garage in Menlo Park.According to their fact sheet, YouTube was founded in February 2005, as a destination to watch and share original videos worldwide through the Web.