Digital Timeline

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  • Electric light

    Electric light
    Humphry Davy invents the first electric light, however it was too bright for practical use and did not last long enough.

  • Photograph

    Photograph
    Nicéphore Niépce makes the first known photograph, a picture of the courtyard of his house

  • First telegraph

    First telegraph
    Samuel Morse invented the first telegraph at this time. He used it and sent a message from Washington D.C. to Baltimore. The first message to be sent, "What hath God wrought"

  • First Telephone

    First Telephone
    Alexander Graham Bell makes the first telephone call, addressing his assistant “Mr. Watson—come here—I want to see you.”

  • Radio

    Radio
    Guglielmo Marconi sends a Morse code message of the letter "S" across the Atlantic

  • Television

    Television
    Philo T. Farnsworth makes the first electronic television transmission, which was a horizontal line

  • Computer

    Computer
    John Atanasoff designs the first digital electronic computer. It would use binary numbers and its data stored in capacitors.

  • Artificial Intelligence

    Artificial Intelligence
    Arthur Samuel writes a checkers program

  • Personal Computer

    Personal Computer
    The first computer that is small enough for home use, the Altair, is invented

  • Internet

    Internet
    Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn produced the TCP/IP which is the basis for how data is transmitted over the internet