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Calculator
Willhelm Schickard invented the "Calculating Clock", the first mechanical calculator. It used a version of Napier's bones for multiplication with a mechanical adding/subtracting calculator based on gears, with mutilated gears for carry. Blaise Pascal started to develop a mechanical calculator - the Pascaline. -
Charles Babage
Charles Babbage FRS was a British computer scientist and mathematician who designed and developed a mechanical calculator capable of calculating tables of numerical functions by the method of differences. -
Herman Hollerith
Herman Hollerith made the the punched card or simply card is a sheet made of cardboard containing information in the form of perforations according to a binary code. These were the first means used to enter information and instructions to a computer in the 1960s and 1970s. -
Alan Turing
The main focus of Turing's work at Bletchley was in cracking the 'Enigma' code. The Enigma was a type of enciphering machine used by the German armed forces to send messages securely. -
heddy Lamar
She invented the wifi and gps presently, almost all commercially available data storage systems use saturation recording and binary signaling schemes. Earlier data channels for storage systems utilized various forms of bit by bit peak detection. More recently, various forms of PRML -
Voice recognition
1950s and 1960s: Baby Talk. The first speech recognition systems could understand only digits. Given the complexity of human language, it makes sense that inventors and engineers first focused on numbers. Bell Laboratories designed in 1952 the "Audrey" system, which recognized digits spoken by a single voice. -
Jhon Backus
In 1954, language FORTRAN was invented at IBM by a team led by John Backus; it was the first widely used high level general purpose programming language to have a functional implementation, as opposed to just a design on paper -
Robot
In 1954 George Devol invented the first digitally operated and a programmable robot called the Unimate. In 1956, Devol and his partner Joseph Engelberger formed the world's first robot company. In 1961, the first industrial robot, Unimate, went online in a General Motors automobile factory in New Jersey. -
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4, 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. It rose to dominate the personal computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by Microsoft Windows. -
Apple inc
Steven Paul Jobs, better known as Steve Jobs, was a businessman and business tycoon in the computer industry and the American entertainment industry. He was co-founder and CEO of Apple Inc. and the largest individual shareholder of The Walt Disney Company. -
William Yeager
The first multiprotocol routers were independently created by staff researchers at MIT and Stanford in 1981; the Stanford router was done by William Yeager, and the MIT one by Noel Chiappa; both were also based on PDP-11s. -
George Gerpheide
The first touch pad was invented by George E. Gerpheide in 1988. Apple Computer was the first to license and use the touch pad in its Powerbook laptops in 1994. The touch pad has since become the leading cursor controlling device in laptops. -
Acces point
In 1991, NCR Corporation with AT&T Corporation invented the precursor to 802.11, intended for use in cashier systems. The first wireless products were under the name WaveLAN. They are the ones credited with inventing Wi-Fi. -
Smartphone
Rob Stothard/Getty People didn't start using the term "smartphone" until 1995, but the first true smartphone actually made its debut three years earlier in 1992. It was called the Simon Personal Communicator, and it was created by IBM more than 15 years before Apple released the iPhone. -
Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg was a Harvard computer science student when he, along with classmates Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes invented Facebook. Amazingly, the idea for the website, now the world's most popular social networking page, was inspired by a botched effort to get internet users to rate each other's photos. -
Whatsapp
WhatsApp Messenger is a freeware and cross-platform messaging and Voice over IP (VoIP) service owned by Facebook.[45] The application allows the sending of text messages and voice calls, as well as video calls, images and other media, documents, and user location.[46][47] The application runs from a mobile device but is also accessible from desktop computers; the service requires[48] consumer users to provide a standard cellular mobile number. -
Instagram
In 2010, Systrom co‑founded the photo-sharing and, later, video-sharing social networking service Instagram with Mike Krieger in San Francisco, California. -
Tablets
Microsoft Invented A Tablet A Decade Before Apple And Totally Blew It. Apple's iPad is a revolutionary product that is cratering the PC industry. But it wasn't Steve Jobs' idea. A full decade before Jobs launched the iPad in 2010, Bill Gates launched Microsoft's touch input tablet computer. -
Snapchat
A brief history of Snapchat. Snapchat is an image and video messaging application created in 2011 by Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy and Reggie Brown. The app was created when the trio were studying at Stanford University, with Spiegel presenting its first incarnation as part of a project for his product design class. -
Douglas Engelbart
Douglas Carl Engelbart Portland, Oregon, January 30, 1925 Atherton, California, July 2, 2013 1 was an American inventor, descendant of Norwegians. He is known for inventing the mouse, and was a pioneer of human interaction with computers, including hypertext and networked computers.
