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Spread Spectrum
Nikola Tesla develops frequency hopping, now known as spread spectrum. -
Panasonic
Panasonic is founded. -
Radio Shack
The first Radio Shack store is open. -
FCC
The FCC is established. The U.S. Communication Act is established shorty after. -
First electronic computer
Iowa State Colleges John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry begin work on creating the binary-based ABC (Atanasoft-Berry Computer). Considered by most to be the first electronic digital computer. -
PCM
Alec Reeves develops PCM (used for cd's, dvd's and blu-ray discs) -
The Xerox
Chester Carlson produces first electrophotographic image October 22, 1938, which later becomes the Xerox machine. -
Complex Number Calculator
George Stibitz completes the Complex Number Calculator capable of adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing complex numbers. This device provides a foundation for digital computers. -
Z3
German Konrad Zuse finishes the Z3, a fully program-operational calculating machine. The computer is publically introduced in Berlin May 12, 1941. -
First calculator
ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer), the first general-purpose electronic digital calculator begins to be constructed. This computer by most is considered to be the first electronic computer. -
Debugging
The term bug as computer bug was termed by Grace Hopper when programming the MARK II. -
Chess
Claude Shannon builds the first machine that plays chess at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. -
AI
John McCarthy coins the term Artificial Intelligence (AI) in 1955 at Dartmouth University. -
Tennis for Two
William Higinbotham created the first video game called: Tennis for Two. -
AT&T
AT&T introduces the dataphone and the first known MODEM.
