Chapter 7 Education

  • Invention of Pencils

    Invention of Pencils
    Nicholas-Jacques Conte invented the modern pencil.
  • Productivity

    A brief history of Productivity. It became bigger and bigger after an article about the history of productivity was made.
  • Fountain Pen, May 25

    Invented by Petrache Poenaru
  • Overhead Projector

    French physicist Edmond Becquerel developed the first overhead projection apparatus.
  • Filing cabinets invented

    Henry Brown was the American inventor who is invented the horizontal filing cabinet in 1886 whereas Edwin G. Seibels invented the most commonly used vertical filing cabinet in 1898.
  • Cloud

    Cloud computing is believed to have been invited by Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider.
  • Computer Networking Technology

    One of the earliest computer networks was proposed by Leonard Kleinrock in 1961. The term "packet" was coined by Donald Davies in 1965.
  • Floppy disk invention

    Alan Shugart invented the floppy disk drive. It was an 8-inch disk used on the first IBM Personal Computer.
  • Email

    Ray Tomlinson is credited as the inventor of email. He developed the first system able to send mail between users on different hosts.
  • Unified Communications

    In 1993, ThinkRite developed the unified messaging system, POET, for IBM's internal use.
  • Smartboard invention

    Smartboard invention
    Invented by David Martin and Nancy Knowlton through their company SMART Technologies in 1991.
  • Internet

    The World Wide Web became publicly available. Its creator, the now internationally known Tim Berners-Lee.
  • USB Flash Drive Invented

    Dov moran invented the USB Flash Drive in 2001. Flash drive is a small portable device used to transfer data from one device to another.
  • Zoom

    Eric Yuan is a Chinese-American billionaire businessman, and the CEO and founder of Zoom Video Communications of which he owns 22%.
  • Invention of Kahoot

    Founded in 2012 by Johan Brand, Jamie Brooker, and Morten Versvik in a joint project with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Quiz participation in schools.