Computing

By nmuhedin

  • Chalkboard

    Chalkboard
    Although chalkboards are still common in schools, especially in older schools, newer schools today tend to use the dry-erase board for its ease of use and because it eliminates chalk dust contamination in the classroom and avoids the need to have students clean erasers, a common chore in earlier days.

  • Telephone

    Telephone
    Antonio Meucci, an Italian immigrant, began developing the design of a talking telegraph or telephone in 1849.

  • Typewriter

    Typewriter
    The first typewriter to be commercially successful was invented in 1868 by Americans Christopher Latham Sholes, Carlos Glidden and Samuel W. Soule

  • Remote controls

    Remote controls
    The first remote intended to control a television was developed by Zenith Radio Corporation in 1950

  • Ipad

    Ipad
    The iPad was announced on January 27, 2010, by Steve Jobs at an Apple press conference at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.