Caleb's history of technology

By clebman0055

  • First mechanical computer or automatic computing engine concept

    First mechanical computer or automatic computing engine concept
    Charles Babbage developed the difference machine. This machine could compute multiple several sets of numbers and make hard copies of the results.

  • First public broadcast

    First public broadcast
    The first public radio performance was broadcast on January 13, 1910, from the Metropolitan Opera House. The signal was broadcast with a five hundred watt transmitter, and was heard as far away as Bridgeport, Connecticut.

  • First Television

    First Television
    The first television was pioneered by Peter Goldmark called the LCD TV. LCD meaning Liquid crystal Display.

  • The first electric computer

    The first electric computer
    Alan Turing proposed the Turing Machine. This machine was a device that printed symbols on paper tape in a manner that emulated a person following a series of logical instructions

  • The first programmable computer

    The first programmable computer
    The Z1 was developed by Konrad Zuse, a German, in his parents living room and is considered to be the first electro-mechanical binary programmable computer, and the first really functional modern computer.

  • First digital computer

    First digital computer
    Atanasoff-Berry Computer or ABC was developed by Professor John Vincent Atanasoff and graduate student Cliff Berry in 1937. Its development continued until 1942 at the Iowa State College (now Iowa State University). With over 300 vacuum tubes for digital computation including binary math and Boolean logic and had no CPU.

  • First Airplane radar system

    First Airplane radar system
    English physicists John Randall and Harry Boot develop a compact magnetron for use in airplane radar navigation systems.

  • First electric programmable computer

    First electric programmable computer
    Colossus, developed by Tommy Flowers, was created in December of 1943 to help the British code breakers read encrypted German messages.

  • The start of the modern computer Revolution

    The start of the modern computer Revolution
    John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley invent the transistor, which allows electronic equipment to made much smaller and leads to the modern computer revolution.

  • The First CAD system

    The First CAD system
    IBM and General Motors develop Design Augmented by Computers-1 (DAC-1), the first computer-aided design (CAD) system.

  • The first computer Mouse

    The first computer Mouse
    Douglas Engelbart develops the computer mouse.

  • First Basic Cable Network

    First Basic Cable Network
    In 1972, HBO became the first pay cable network. It was the first to use a newly approved satellite-based distribution system, distributing its signal to cable operators nationwide.

  • First barcode scanner and codes

    First barcode scanner and codes
    The first ever UPC scanner was installed at one checkout station in a Marsh’s Supermarket in Troy, Ohio, in June of 1974.In 1972, a Kroger in Cincinnati experimented with a “bulls-eye” style code—but at the time, a committee was being formed within the grocery industry to produce a standard. IBM’s proposal, for what would become known as the UPC or Uniform Product Code, won out.

  • The First Graphical User Interface

    The First Graphical User Interface
    The first commercially available home computer called the Xerox Alto, with anything resembling a familiar GUI (a graphical user interface), with windows, folders, and a mouse was the Apple Macintosh in 1984, which was famously adapted by Microsoft for its Windows OS.

  • CERN's World Wide Web project

    CERN's World Wide Web project
    The World Wide Web is a wide-area hypermedia information retrieval initiative aiming to give universal access to a large universe of documents. So reads the text at the top of the first website ever to be published, by Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, on August 6, 1991.The page was created on a NeXT workstation at CERN labs in Geneva, Switzerland.

  • eBay

    eBay
    Pierre Omidyar launches the eBay auction website.

  • Bit Torrent

    Bit Torrent
    Bram Cohen develops BitTorrent file-sharing.

  • Roomba

    Roomba
    iRobot Corporation releases the first version of its Roomba® vacuum cleaning robot.

  • More affordable Laptop

    A pioneering low-cost laptop for developing countries called OLPC is announced by MIT computing pioneer Nicholas Negroponte.

  • Amazon's Kindle E-Books

    Amazon's Kindle E-Books
    Amazon.com launches its Kindle electronic book (e-book) reader.

  • The iPhone

    The iPhone
    Apple introduces a touchscreen cellphone called the iPhone.

  • Apple Releases the iPad

    Apple Releases the iPad
    Apple releases its touchscreen tablet computer, the iPad.

  • 3D TV

    3D TV
    3D TV's become more widely available

  • Hyperloop

    Hyperloop
    Elon Musk announces "hyperloop"—a giant, pneumatic tube transport system.

  • Worlds fastest Computer

    Worlds fastest Computer
    Supercomputers (the world's fastest computers) are now a mere 30 times less powerful than human brains.