History of ICT

  • CRT Monitor

    CRT Monitor
    The first commercially made electronic television sets with cathode ray tubes were manufactured by Telefunken in Germany in 1934
  • Barcode

    Barcode
    Started in 1948 when the idea came into existence from Bernard Silver. The product was developed much later.
  • Laser Disc

    Laser Disc
    Optical video recording technology, using a transparent disc, was invented by David Paul Gregg and James Russell in 1958.
  • LCD Monitors

    LCD Monitors
    In 1972, the first active-matrix liquid-crystal display panel was produced in the United States by T Peter Brody's team at Westinghouse, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
  • Laserjet Printers

    Laserjet Printers
    The first commercial implementation of a laser printer was the IBM 3800 in 1976
  • Tablet

    Tablet
    There were several companies with commercial products in the 1980s: Pencept, Communications Intelligence Corporation, and Linus were among the best known of a crowded field.
  • Trackball

    Trackball
    Invented post world war as a comprehensive display system.