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Difference Engine
The first computer/calculating machine. It was made by Charles Babbage. It counts up by any number. -
Airplane
Wilbur and Orville made the first powered airplane which was successful. -
Refrigerator
The first refrigerator to see widespread use was the General Electric "Monitor-Top" refrigerator introduced in 1927 -
Rockefeller Differential Analyzer
It was made by wires and 150 electric motors. It was made by US government scientist Vannevar Bush. This was known as an analog calculator. -
ABC (Atanasoff-Berry Computer)
The ABC was the first electric computing device. It made by John Vincent Atanasoff, he was known as the ‘Father of Computer’
It was designed with a specific purpose, to solve systems of simultaneous up to 29 linear equations. -
Coloured TV
The first coloured system was invented by John Logie Baird in 1928 but in the 1940’s the TV showed 3 primary colours, red, green and blue. -
Colossus
Colossus was made by Tommy Flowers and the idea was from Alan Turing. The machine was made to decode the Lorenz cipher. It helped the Allies win the world war 2 against Germany. -
Mobile Phone
The first hand held mobile phone was demonstrated by John F. Michell and Martin Cooper. The top selling mobile companies today are Apple, Nokia and samsung. -
Xerox Alto
It was one of the first personal computers, it had a desktop like screen with little picture icons. -
MITS Altair 8800
By 1974, Intel had launched a popular microprocessor known as the 8080 and computer hobbyists were soon building home computers around it. The first was the MITS Altair 8800, built by Ed Roberts -
S.A.G.E
This was a large computer founded by Rod Coleman, Bill Bonman and Bob Needleman -
The Osborne 1
In 1981 the 16-bit IBM PC was released. This was a small computer with a very small screen. (The Osborne 1) -
The Internet
This was made by Tim-Berners Lee who was a computer scientist -
Xbox 360
The xbox 360 is the sixth best game console in the world.
