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