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The Difference engine
This was Charles Babbage's invention that he created in Cambridge to calculate a series of values automatically. So it was possible to avoid the need for multiplication and division. It composed of around 25,000 parts, weigh fifteen tons (13,600 kg), and would have been 8 ft (2.4 m) tall. Even though Babbage received ample funding for the project, it was never completed. -
Flying machine design
Ada Lovelace produced the desgins for the first flying machine. It was mathematics that gave life to her wings -
Analytical engine
The Analytical Engine was a proposed mechanical general-purpose computer designed by English mathematician Charles Babbage. It was first described in 1837, a design for a mechanical calculator. The Analytical Engine had an arithmetical unit, control flow in the form of conditional branching and loops, and integrated memory, making it the first design for a general-purpose computer. -
Cathode ray tube (CRT)
The experimentation of cathode rays is largely accredited to J.J. Thomson, an English physicist who, in his three famous experiments, was able to deflect cathode rays, a fundamental function of the modern CRT. The earliest version of the CRT was invented by the German physicist Ferdinand Braun in 1897 and is also known as the Braun tube. The cathode ray tube (CRT) is a vacuum tube containing an electron gun (a source of electrons) and a fluorescent screen used to view images. -
Enigma machine
Invented by German engineer Arthur Scherbius at the end of World War I, 1918. An enigma machine is any of a family of related electro-mechanical rotor cipher machines used for the encryption and decryption of secret messages. -
The first general-purpose computers built
Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine and Difference engine's were the first general-purpose computers were actually built. -
COLOSSUS
Colossus was the world's first electronic, digital, computer, Colossus and its successors were used by British codebreakers to help read encrypted German messages during World War II. Colossus was designed by engineer Tommy Flowers with input from Sidney Broadhurst, William Chandler, The prototype, Colossus Mark 1, was shown to be working in December 1943 and was operational at Bletchley Park by February. An improved Colossus Mark 2 first worked on 1 June 1944, just in time for the Normandy Land -
ENIAC
John Mauchly and John Presper Eckert developed the ENIAC I (Electrical Numerical Integrator And Calculator). The American military sponsored their research; the army needed a computer for calculating artillery-firing tables, the settings used for different weapons under varied conditions for target accuracy. -
Computer mouse
A relatively unknown inventor Douglas Englebart, wanted to create a way for people to interact with a computer screen. , he came up with all sorts of ideas, including a giant metal track ball and a knee operated device -
Internet
Internet as we know it today first started being developed in the late 1960's. The initial idea is Leonard Kleinrock's after he published his first paper entitled "Information Flow in Large Communication Nets" on May 31, 1961. In 1962 J.C.R. Licklider becomes the first Director of IPTO and gave his vision of a galactic network. In addition to the ideas from Licklider and Kleinrock, Robert Taylor helped create the idea of the network, which later became ARPANET. -
Thin film transistor
The TFT, Thin Film Transistor came around and produced even more crystal clear images with faster refresh rates than TFD. As phones increase to more and more colors, TFD couldn't handle it. So TFT is usually used with displays of 4,096 colors, 65,000 colors, and 260,000 colors. But with the increased colors, refresh rates, and clarity, the power consumption is much higher resulting in more frequent battery charging. -
Floppy discs
The Inventor of First Floppy Disk is IBM Company and the year. Yoshiro Nakamatsu was the person who invented it for IBM.The disk was 8" in diameter with a magnetic coating, enclosed in a cardboard case with the capacity of one megabyte. Conversely to hard disks, the heads actually touch the disk, like in a cassette or video player that actually wears the media down over time. -
Pong
Pong is one of the earliest arcade video games, and is a tennis sports game featuring simple two-dimensional graphics. Pong was one of the first video games to reach mainstream popularity. The aim is to defeat the opponent in a simulated table tennis game by earning a higher score. The game was originally manufactured by Atari Incorporated, who released it in 1972. Allan Alcorn created Pong as a training exercise assigned to him by Atari co-founder Nolan Bush -
GPS
The GPS project was developed in 1973 to overcome the limitations of previous navigation systems. The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a space-based satellite navigation system that provides location and time information in all weather, anywhere on or near the Earth, where there is an unobstructed line of sight to four or more GPS satellites. GPS was created and realized by the U.S. Department of Defense and was originally run with 24 satellites. It became fully operational in 1994. -
Microsoft
Microsoft is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, United States that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services. It was established on April 4, 1975 to develop and sell interpreters. Microsoft rose to dominate the home computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems. Microsoft is one of the largest software corporations in the world -
Cray 1
The Cray-1 was a supercomputer designed, manufactured, and marketed by Cray Research. The first Cray-1 system was installed at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1976, and it went on to become one of the best known and most successful supercomputers in history. The Cray-1's architect was Seymour Cray and the chief engineer was Cray Research co-founder Lester Davis.[1] -
Apple 1
The original Apple Computer (Apple 1) is a personal computer released by the Apple Computer Company (now Apple Inc.). They were designed and hand-built by Steve Wozniak. Wozniak's friend Steve Jobs had the idea of selling the computer. The Apple I was Apple's first product, and to finance its creation, Jobs sold his only means of transportation, a VW van and Wozniak sold his HP-65 calculator for $500. -
CD-ROMs
Sony of Japan and Philips of the Netherlands developed the a small hard plastic disc that could be economically produced in large quantities -
Apple II
The Apple II is an 8-bit home computer, one of the first highly successful mass-produced microcomputer products, designed primarily by Steve Wozniak, manufactured and introduced by Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.) It is the first model in a series of computers which were produced until Apple production ceased in November 1993. -
Sinclair ZX80
The Sinclair ZX80 is a home computer brought to market inby Science of Cambridge Ltd. (better known as Sinclair Research). It is notable for being the first computer available in the United Kingdom for less than a hundred pounds at about £99.95. It was available in kit form, where purchasers had to assemble it together, a ready-built version was at a slightly higher cost for those without the skill to build their own unit. -
Apple III
The Apple III is a business-oriented personal computer produced and released by Apple Computer that was intended as the successor to the Apple II series, but largely considered a failure in the market. Development work on the Apple III started in late 1978 under the guidance of Dr. Wendell Sander. -
Sinclair ZX81
The ZX81 was a home computer produced by Sinclair Research. It was launched in the United Kingdom as the successor to Sinclair's ZX80 and was designed to be a low-cost introduction to home computing for the general public. It was hugely successful and more than 1.5 million units were sold before it was eventually discontinued. The ZX81 was designed to be small, simple, and above all cheap, using as few components as possible. -
IBM 5150
IBM model number 5150, and was introduced on August 12, 1981. It was created by a team of engineers and designers under the direction of Don Estridge of the IBM Entry Systems Division in Boca Raton, Florida. -
Commodore 64
The Commodore 64, was an 8-bit home computer introduced in January 1982 by Commodore International. There are 64 kilobytes of RAM, and had favourable sound and graphical specifications -
Mac OS
Mac OS is a series of graphical user interface-based operating systems developed by Apple Inc. for their Macintosh line of computer systems. The original form of what Apple would later name the "Mac OS" was the integral and unnamed system software first introduced with the original Macintosh, usually referred to simply as the System software. -
The Amstrad PCW
The Amstrad PCW series was a range of personal computers produced by British company Amstrad, owned by Alan Sugar. The Amstrad PCW8256 was primarily sold as a word processor but was actually quite a competent general use computer owing to its flexible operating system and BASIC interpreter. -
Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Microsoft. Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in users. Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal computer market, overtaking Mac OS. The most recent server version is Windows Server 2008 R2; the most recent mobile version is Windows Phone 7.5. -
Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES)
The Super Nintendo Entertainment System is a 16-bit video game console that was released by Nintendo in North America, Europe, Australasia (Oceania), and South America. The Super Nintendo Entertainment System was Nintendo's second home console, following the Nintendo Entertainment System. The console introduced advanced graphics and sound capabilities compared with other consoles at the time. -
Tim Berners Lee
Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, is an English computer scientist, MIT professor and the inventor of the World Wide Web. On 25 December 1990, with the help of Robert Cailliau and a young student at CERN, he made the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the Internet. -
Playstation
The PlayStation brand is a series of video game consoles created and developed by Sony Computer Entertainment. The brand was first introduced on December 3, 1994 in Japan. The brand consists of a total of three home consoles, a media center, an online service, a line of controllers, two handhelds and a phone, as well as multiple magazines. -
DVD
DVD is an optical disc storage format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions. -
Memory Stick
Memory Stick is a removable flash memory card format, launched by Sony. In addition to the original Memory Stick, there is the Memory Stick PRO, Memory Stick Duo, a small-form-factor version of the Memory Stick and the even smaller Memory Stick Micro. In December 2006 Sony added the Memory Stick PRO-HG, a high speed variation of the PRO used in high-definition video and cameras. -
Playstation 2
The PlayStation 2 is a sixth-generation video game console, succcessor manufactured by Sony as part of the PlayStation series. Its development was announced in March 1999 and it was first released on March 4, 2000, in Japan. -
iPod Classic
Apple introduced the first-generation iPod on October 23, 2001, with the slogan "1,000 songs in your pocket". The first iPod had a black and white LCD screen and featured a 5 GB hard drive capable of storing 1,000 songs using MP3 and was priced at $399. The iPod's innovations were its small size, achieved using a 1.8" hard drive, whereas its competitors were using 2.5" hard drives at the time, and its easy-to-use navigation, which was controlled using a mechanical scroll wheel. -
Playstation 3
The PlayStation 3 is the third home video game console produced by Sony Computer Entertainment and the successor to the PlayStation 2 as part of the PlayStation series. The PlayStation 3 was part of the seventh generation of video game consoles. It was first released on Japan, with international markets following shortly thereafter. -
Nintendo Wii
The Nintendo Wii is a home video game console released by Nintendo. As a seventh-generation console, the Wii primarily competes with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3. Nintendo states that its console targets a broader population than that of the two others. In December 2009 broke the record for best-selling console in a single month in the United States -
Xbox
The Xbox is a sixth-generation video game console manufactured by Microsoft. It was released on November 15, 2001 in North America and March 14, 2002 in Australia and Europe. It was to construct a prototype Microsoft Windows-based video game console. The team hoped to create a console to compete with the Sony's upcoming PlayStation 2, which was luring game developers away from the Windows platform. -
UNIVAC
The UNIVAC (Universal Automatic Computer ) was the first commercial computer produced in the United States. It was designed principally by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, the inventors of the ENIAC. Design work was begun by their company, Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation, and was completed after the company had been acquired by Remington Rand -
iPod touch
The iPod Touch is a portable media player, personal digital assistant, handheld game console, and Wi-Fi mobile device designed . It is the first iPod with wireless access to the iTunes Store, and also has access to Apple's App Store, enabling content to be purchased and downloaded directly on the device. The current generation was released on September 8 2010 but the first one was released on September 5 2007 -
iPad
The iPad is a line of tablet computers designed and marketed by Apple Inc., primarily as a platform for audio-visual media including books, periodicals, movies, music, games, apps and web content. Its size and weight fall between those of contemporary smartphones and laptop computers. The first Wi-Fi version was released on April 3, 2010 and the Wi-Fi + 3G version was released on April 30. The iPad 2 March 11, 2011 and the final iPad 3 on March 16, 2012 -
Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser developed for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. It was intially released on November 9, 2004. The Firefox project began as an experimental branch of the Mozilla project by Dave Hyatt, Joe Hewitt and Blake Ross. On April 3, 2003, the Mozilla Organization announced that they planned to change their focus from the Mozilla Suite to Firefox and Thunderbird.
