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Jan 1, 1500
The First Printing Press
Sometime in the 15th century, Johannes Gutenberg invented the first actual printing press, which enabled him to mass-produce books in a fairly short time, at a lower overall cost. -
Jan 1, 1511
The First Modern Clock
The first modern clock was spring driven, and was invented in around 1511 by Peter Henlein (a German inventor), as a more convenient way of measuring time I assume, and was a starting point for other inventors to create better, more accurate, sturdy, small, and easy to read clocks in the future. -
The First Telegraphical Message
On Friday, May 24, 1844, at 8:45AM, in Washington, at the Baltimore Terminus, Samuel Morse transmitted the first ever message sent by telegraph, which read, "What Hath God Wrought?" Morse also developed the code, now known as Morse code, used to translate the dots and dashes transmitted through the telegraph by small electrical current flowing through the wires from the telegraph to the particular station being telegraphed. The telegraph revolutionized communication overlong distances. -
The First Typewriter
In 1867, Christopher Latham Sholes from Milwaukee invented the first typewriter, which would later be sold and turned into the successful Remington typewriter. This invention was one of many prototypes during that period of time, when the technology was possible to actually make a writing machine. -
The Telephone Works
On March 10, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell sent the transmition, “Mr. Watson, come here; I want you.” in his laboratory to his assistant Thomas Augustus Watson, this was done to prove that Bell's invention of the telephone worked. He had invented the telephone to basically imitate a telegraph, only you'd speak into it. He'd gotten the idea of it in 1874, and applied of a patent two years later, which came in on March 7, 1876. -
The First Pair of Auditory Headphones
in 1910, Nathaniel Baldwin (a Fundamentalist Mormon and engineer) invented the headphones, I'd assume, to make the previous technology used of auditory listening specifically for one person, which was the Electrophone. This idea was embraced by the US navy, who ordered 100 pairs of headphones, which made him a rich man. -
Holography is Born
The technology of holography was crated in 1947 when Dennis Gabor, a British (native of Hungary) was trying to improve the resolution of an electron microscepe. -
The First Electronic Desktop Calculator
In 1961 the first all electronic desktop calculator was developed in Briton marked by its Bell Punch and Sumlock Brands. It was called FANTA (A New Inspiration To Arithmetic/Accounting), and used the same push button key layout as its company's mechanical computers. I believe this calculator was invented to have a small, portable, and convenient way of calculating numbers easily and quickly. -
The First 3-D Hologram
In 1962, Emmett Leith and Juris Upatnieks, from the university of Michigan, from their experience in side-reading radar, thought that holography could be 3-D. They read Dennis Gabor's paper, and "out of curiosity," duplicated Gabor's technique using the laser and an "off-axis" technique from their experience in deve;oping side-reading radar. This resulted in the first 3-D laser transition hologram (of a toy train and a bird). -
The First Desktop Computer
In 1964, Pier Giorgio Perotto invented the first desktop computer (the Programma 101). This I assume was created to make the already existing computer smaller. 44, 000 of these computers, manufactured by Olivetti, were sold at $3,200 each. -
The First Finger Touch Screan
In 1965, E.A. Johnson invented the first finger driven touchscreen. This provided, "... a very efficient coupling between man and machine." (E.A. Johnson). -
The First Photovoltaic Cell
In the early 1980s, Charles Fritts invented the first photovoltaic cell. He was investigating a discovery in the properties of a material called selenium, made by Willoughby Smith when he was testing underwater telegraph lines for faults with that same material. The discovery was that it conducts electricity very well in light, but not in darkness.
