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First calculator
Samuel Morland invents a mechanical calculator that could add and subtract. -
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The History of Computers
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Multiplying calculator
The third Earl of Stanhope events a multiplying calculator. -
Typewriter
The first typewriter is patented by William Austin Burt. It's slow and clumsy, but it's the first writing machine. -
The Telegraph is Invented
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Printing calculator
Schuetz invents the first printing calculator. -
The Atlantic Cable
The first Atlantic cable is laid between the US and Europe. It only works for a few days before breaking, but by 1866 a successful cable is laid and will carry international communications for over 100 years -
First Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone -
Electronic typewriter
IBM introduces the electric typewriter -
Model K
George Stibitz builds his model K, which demonstrates the feasibility of mechanizing binary math -
Harvard Mark 1
Howard Aiken and staff at IBM's Endicott Labs complete the Harvard Mark 1, an automatic digital sequence-controlled computer. -
SSEC
IBM unveils the SSEC, the Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator -
The ACE
Turing completes the ACE, considered by many to be the first programmable digital computer, at Britain's National Physics Laboratory -
Windows 3.1
Windows 3.1 appears. It is the first relatively stable Windows operating system -
Toy Story
Toy Story is the first full-length feature film to be completely computer generated. -
iMac
Apple releases the iMac
