History of Technology

Abacus

200

Used by the Babylonians as an adding machine.

Binary Number System

300

Clock

Sep 4, 724

Made By Liang Ling- Can to tell time.

Moving Printing Press

Sep 4, 1450

Johnn Gutenbergmade this to print off books, newspapers as a way as a entertainment

Ball Bearings

Sep 4, 1500

Leonardo da Vinci used these in order to hold wheels and axles

Pocket Watch

Sep 4, 1500

Peter Henlein invented it to tell time on the go.

Thermometer

Sep 4, 1593

Galileo Galilei invented it to see the temperture outside

Telescope

Sep 4, 1608

Hans Lippershey wanted to see what stars.

Franklin Stove

Sep 4, 1742

Heat the room effectively

Hot air Balloon

Sep 4, 1783

The Montgolfier brothers used it for Military Purpose

Steamboat

Sep 4, 1801

A way of transportation invented by John Fitch and Robert Fulton

Electric Motor

Sep 4, 1821

Michael Faraday invented to convert electrical energy to mechanical energy

Train

Sep 4, 1821

Invented by Julius Griffiths as a way of transportation

Punch Cards

Sep 4, 1832

Semen Korsakov used it to store infomation

Boolean Algebra

Sep 4, 1848

George Boole invented it so later it could be used for computer proggraming

Pratical logic machine

Sep 4, 1868

William Stanley Jevons develops this early version of a calulator.

Calulator

Sep 4, 1878

Made to do calulations

Desk Calulator

Sep 4, 1889

TO move the Calulator into homes and offices

Radio

Sep 4, 1895

A lot of guys Guglielmo Marconi, Nikola Tesla, Alexander Popov, Sir Oliver Lodge, Reginald Fessenden, Heinrich Hertz, Amos Dolbear, Mahlon Loomis, Nathan Stubblefield and James Clerk Maxwell all invented parts that combined make up the radio.

Invention of Apparatus for Treating Air

Nov 7, 1902

Inventor- Willis Carrier
(An ancestor of Air Conditioning)
To cool air and lower humidity down to 55%

The first electronic dishwasher on the market

Sep 4, 1913

Inventor- The Walker Brothers
To electronically clean dishes in a household with heat to remove germs.

Herbert Hoover’s face first seen on screen

Jan 1, 1927

Inventor of the television- Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, and Philo Taylor Farnsworth.
He was seen on TV for a public announcement.

Introduction of Electric Typewriter

Jan 1, 1935

Invented by International Business Machines (IBM).
A typewriting device to make characters “so neat and exact as not to be distinguished from print”.

First commercial camera made by Canon “Hansa Canon”

Sep 4, 1936

Inventor- Canon; Goro Yoshida, Saburo Uchida, and Takeo Maeda
A high-grade 35mm rangefinder camera.

Introduction of First Electronic Computer

Sep 4, 1939

Inventor- Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC)
Used for binary arithmetic.

Introduction of First Vacuum-tube Programmable Logic Calculator

Oct 5, 1943

Inventor- Tommy Flowers
Used to break Nazi codes.

First use/invention of the Credit Card

Jan 1, 1950

Inventor- American Express.
A card used for charging money to an accumulative amount.

Introduction of UNIVAC 1

Sep 4, 1951

Inventor- T. Raymond Thompson and John Simmons
Designed for U.S. business to use magnetic tape storage instead of punch cards.

Introduction of Floppy Disk

Sep 4, 1967

Inventor- IBM researchers led by Alan Shugart
Used to store data.

Electronic Mail (Email)

Sep 4, 1971

Exchnage digital messages

Video Game Console

Sep 4, 1972

entertainment

Laptop Portabale COmputer

Sep 4, 1975

Portable Personal use computer

Apple IIE Personal Computer

Sep 4, 1977

Personal use computer

CD-ROM Drive

Sep 4, 1980

Used to store data

First Home Computer

Jan 1, 1981

First personal use computer

World Wide Web

Sep 4, 1989

Access information

Smartphone

Sep 4, 1994

Make calls, play games, and access the Internet

Flash Drive

Sep 4, 1999

Store data

Facebook

Feb 1, 2004

social networking