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Period: Jan 1, 700 to
Computer Timeline
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Sep 13, 724
Liang Ling-Can
Liang Ling-Can creates the first fully mechanical clock. -
Sep 13, 1492
Leanardo da Vinci
Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci depict inventions such as flying machines, including a helicopter, the first mechanical calculator and one of the first programmable robots -
John Napier
John Napier invents a system of moveable rods (Napier's Rods) based on logarithms which was able to multiply, divide and calculate square and cube roots -
William Oughtred
William Oughtred develops slide rules -
Wihelm Schickard
Calculating Clock: Invented by Wilhelm Schickard -
Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal: Blaise Pascal invents the the "Pascaline", a mechanical adding machine -
Gottfried Leibniz
Gottfried Leibniz is known as one of the founding fathers of calculus -
Charles Xavier Thomas
1820 Arithmometer: The Arithmometer was the first mass-produced calculator invented by Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar -
Charles Babbage
1822 Charles Babbage: Charles Babbage designs his first mechanical computer -
Charles Babbage
1834 Analytical Engine: The Analytical Engine was invented by Charles Babbage -
Samuel Morse
1835 Morse code: Samuel Morse invents Morse code -
George Boole
1848 Boolean algebra: Boolean algebra is invented by George Boole -
Per Gerorge Scheutz
1853 Tabulating Machine: Per Georg Scheutz and his son Edvard invent the Tabulating Machine -
Willaim Stanley Jevons
1869 William Stanley Jevons: William Stanley Jevons designs a practical logic machine -
Ramon Verea
1878 Ramon Verea: Ramon Verea invents a fast calculator with an internal multiplication table -
Alexander Graham Bell
1880 Alexander Graham Bell: Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone called the Photophone -
Dorr E. Felt
1884 Comptometer: The Comptometer is an invention of Dorr E. Felt which is operated by pressing keys -
Herman Hollerith
1890 Herman Hollerith: Herman Hollerith invents a counting machine which increment mechanical counters -
Gugliemo Marconi
1895 Guglielmo Marconi: Radio signals were invented by Guglielmo Marconi -
Herman Hollerith
1896 Tabulating Machine Company: Herman Hollerith forms the Tabulating Machine Company which later becomes IBM -
Nikola Tesla
1898 Nikola Tesla: Remote control was invented by Nikola Tesla -
Lee De Forest
1906 Lee De Forest: Lee De Forest invents the electronic tube -
IBM
1911 IBM: IBM is formed on June 15, 1911 -
Philo Farnsworth
1923 Philo Farnsworth: Television Electronic was invented by Philo Farnsworth -
John Logie Baird
1924 John Logie Baird: Electro Mechanical television system was invented by John Logie Baird -
Walther Bothe
Walther Bothe: Walther Bothe develops the logic gate -
Vannevar Bush
1930 Vannevar Bush: Vannevar Bush develops a partly electronic Difference Engine -
Kurt Godel
1931 Kurt Godel: Kurt Godel publishes a paper on the use of a universal formal language -
Alan Turing
1937 Alan Turing: Alan Turing develops the concept of a theoretical computing machine -
Konrad Zuse
1938 Konrad Zuse: Konrad Zuse creates the Z1 Computer a binary digital computer using punch tape -
George Stibitz
1939 George Stibitz: George Stibitz develops the Complex Number Calculator - a foundation for digital computers -
William Hewlett Packard
Hewlett Packard: William Hewlett and David Packard start Hewlett Packard -
John Vincent Atansoff
John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry: John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry develop the ABC (Atanasoft-Berry Computer) prototype -
Adolf Hitler
1943 Enigma: Adolf Hitler uses the Enigma encryption machine -
Alan Turing
Colossus: Alan Turing develops the the code-breaking machine Colossus -
Howard Aiken & Grace Hopper
1944 Howard Aiken & Grace Hopper: Howard Aiken and Grace Hopper designed the MARK series of computers at Harvard University -
John Presper
1945 ENIAC: John Presper Eckert & John W. Mauchly: John Presper Eckert & John W. Mauchly develop the ENIAC ( Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) -
Grace Hopper
Computer Bug: The term computer ‘bug’ as computer bug was first used by Grace Hopper -
F. C. Willaims
1946 F.C. Williams: F.C. Williams develops his cathode-ray tube (CRT) storing device the forerunner to random-access memory (RAM) -
Donald Watts Davies
1947 Pilot ACE: Donald Watts Davies joins Alan Turing to build the fastest digital computer in England at the time, the Pilot ACE -
Willaim Shockley
William Shockley: William Shockley invents the transistor at Bell Labs -
Douglas Engelbart
Douglas Engelbart: Douglas Engelbart theorises on interactive computing with keyboard and screen display instead of on punchcards -
Andrew Donald Booth
1948 Andrew Donald Booth: Andrew Donald Booth invents magnetic drum memory -
Frederic Calland Williams
Frederic Calland Williams & Tom Kilburn: Frederic Calland Williams & Tom Kilburn develop the SSEM "Small Scale Experimental Machine" digital CRT storage which was soon nicknamed the "Baby" -
Claude Shannon
1949 Claude Shannon: Claude Shannon builds the first machine that plays ches s -
Howard Aiken
Howard Aiken: Howard Aiken develops the Harvard-MARK III -
Hideo Yamachito
1950 Hideo Yamachito: The first electronic computer is created in Japan by Hideo Yamachito. -
Alan Turing
Alan Turing: Alan Turing publishes his paper Computing Machinery and Intelligence which helps create the Turing Test. -
T. Raymond Thompson
1951 LEO: T. Raymond Thompson and John Simmons develop the first business computer, the Lyons Electronic Office (LEO) at Lyons Co. -
UNIVAC
UNIVAC: UNIVAC I (UNIVersal Automatic Computer I) was introduced - the first commercial computer made in the United States and designed principally by John Presper Eckert & John W. Mauchly -
EDVAC
EDVAC: The EDVAC (Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer) begins performing basic tasks. Unlike the ENIAC, it was binary rather than decimal -
The IBM
1953 The IBM 701 becomes available and a total of 19 are sold to the scientific community. -
John Backus
1954 John Backus & IBM: John Backus & IBM develop the FORTRAN Computer Programming Language -
Bell Labs
1955 Bell Labs introduces its first transistor computer. -
Wilbur Peters
1956 Optical fiber was invented by Basil Hirschowitz, C. Wilbur Peters, and Lawrence E. Curtiss -
Sputnik I
1957 Sputnik I and Sputnik II: Sputnik I and Sputnik II are launched by the Russians -
ARPA
1958 ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) and NASA is formed -
Silicon chip
Silicon chip: The first integrated circuit, or silicon chip, is produced by the US Jack Kilby & Robert Noyce -
Paul Baran
1959 Paul Baran: Paul Baran theorises on the "survivability of communication systems under nuclear attack", digital technology and symbiosis between humans and machines -
COBOL
COBOL: The Common Business-Oriented Language (COBOL) programming language is invented -
Gemeral Motors
1961 Unimate: General Motors puts the first industrial robot, Unimate, to work in a New Jersey factory -
First computer game
1962 The first computer game: The first computer game Spacewar Computer Game invented BY Steve Russell & MIT -
Douglas Engelbart
1963 The Computer Mouse: Douglas Engelbart invents and patents the first computer mouse (nicknamed the mouse because the tail came out the end) -
ASCII
The American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) is developed to standardize data exchange among computers. -
Word Processor
1964 Word processor: IBM introduces the first word processor -
BASIC
BASIC: John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz develop Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Language (BASIC) -
Hypertext
1965 Hypertext: Andries van Dam and Ted Nelson coin the term "hypertext" -
Floppy Disk
1967 Floppy Disk: IBM creates the first floppy disk -
Seymour Cray
1969 Seymour Cray: Seymour Cray develops the CDC 7600, the first supercomputer -
E-mail
1971 E-mail: E-mail was invented by Ray Tomlinson
