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Movable Rods
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. .datesandevwwwents.org/events-timelines/07-computer-history-timeline.htm -
Slide Rules
William Oughtred: William Oughtred develops slide rules..datesandevwwwents.org/events-timelines/07-computer-history-timeline.htm -
Calculating Clock
Calculating Clock: Invented by Wilhelm Schickard.datesandevwwwents.org/events-timelines/07-computer-history-timeline.htm. -
Pascaline
Blaise Pascal: Blaise Pascal invents the the "Pascaline", a mechanical adding machine. .datesandevwwwents.org/events-timelines/07-computer-history-timeline.htm -
Morse Code
Morse code: Samuel Morse invents Morse code. .datesandevwwwents.org/events-timelines/07-computer-history-timeline.htm -
Boolean Alegbra
Boolean algebra: Boolean algebra is invented by George Boole..datesandevwwwents.org/events-timelines/07-computer-history-timeline.htm -
Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell: Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone called the Photophone. .datesandevwwwents.org/events-timelines/07-computer-history-timeline.htm -
IBM
IBM: IBM is formed on June 15, 1911. .datesandevwwwents.org/events-timelines/07-computer-history-timeline.htm -
Television
Philo Farnsworth: Television Electronic was invented by Philo Farnsworth. .datesandevwwwents.org/events-timelines/07-computer-history-timeline.htm -
Kurt Godel
Kurt Godel: Kurt Godel publishes a paper on the use of a universal formal language. .datesandevwwwents.org/events-timelines/07-computer-history-timeline.htm -
Z1 Computer
Konrad Zuse: Konrad Zuse creates the Z1 Computer a binary digital computer using punch tape. -
Number Calculator
George Stibitz: George Stibitz develops the Complex Number Calculator - a foundation for digital computers. -
Enigma
Enigma: Adolf Hitler uses the Enigma encryption machine -
magnetic drum
Andrew Donald Booth: Andrew Donald Booth invents magnetic drum memory 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" -
Electronic computer
Hideo Yamachito: The first electronic computer is created in Japan by Hideo Yamachito. -
IBM
The IBM 701 becomes available and a total of 19 are sold to the scientific community. -
Transistor computer
Bell Labs introduces its first transistor computer. -
optical fiber
Optical fiber was invented by Basil Hirschowitz, C. Wilbur Peters, and Lawrence E. Curtiss -
Survivability
Paul Baran: Paul Baran theorises on the "survivability of communication systems under nuclear attack", digital technology and symbiosis between humans and machines -
CONBOL
COBOL: The Common Business-Oriented Language (COBOL) programming language is invented. -
Genral Motors
Unimate: General Motors puts the first industrial robot, Unimate, to work in a New Jersey factory. -
Computer games
The first computer game: The first computer game Spacewar Computer Game invented BY Steve Russell & MIT -
floppy disk
Floppy Disk: IBM creates the first floppy disk -
email
E-mail: E-mail was invented by Ray Tomlinson -
SQL
SQL: IBM develops SEQUEL (Structured English Query Language ) now known as SQL
