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Vacuum Tubes
Created by John Ambrose Fleming, vacuum tubes are devices that control electric flow between electrodes due to changes in electric potential. -
1st Programmable Computer
Invented by Konrad Zuse was the first computer that could be programmed, reading instructions through a punched celluloid strip. -
Transistors
Created by John Bardeen, William Shockley, and Walter Brattain, Transistors are devices used to amplify or switch electronic signals. -
1st Electronic Digital Computer
Invented by John Vincent Atanasoff. -
1st Automatic Computing Engines
Invented by Alan Turing, it was the first computer that could really store memory. -
Artificial Intelligence
Invented by John McCarthy, AI is intelligence demonstrated by machines. -
Integrated Circuit
Invented by Werner Jacobi, Jack Kilby, and Robert Noyce, an integrated circuit is a set of electronic circuits on one a small flat piece of semiconductor material. -
Computer Mouse
Created by Douglas Englebart, the mouse is a handheld device whose movement is transmitted onto the device it is connected to. -
Microprocessors
Invented by Federico Faggin, Marcian Hoff, Stanley Mazor, and Masatoshi Shima, a computer processor has all the functions of the CPU on a single little integrated circuit. -
The World Wide Web
Created by Tim Berners-Lee, the world wide web is an information system where documents and other resources are accessible over the internet. -
iPhone
Invented by Steve Jobs, the iPhone is a touch-screen based smartphone. -
Reflection
I think the most important invention was the world wide web. Like I can't even comprehend how he made that, and how useful it is now. Before, computers weren't really for personal use, and I feel like the world wide web kind of opened it up to civilians.
