ICT timeline

  • 1440

    invention of the printing press

    invention of the printing press
    The printing press was invented by the German Johannes Gutenberg and since then he is considered the father of the printing press.
  • clock

    clock
    It was invented in 1657 by the Dutch mathematician Christiaan Huygens and consists of a mechanism where the oscillating movement of a pendulum activates the internal gears that turn the hands of the clock.
  • invention of the steam machine

    invention of the steam machine
    The steam engine was created by Scotsman James Watt. This improved the means of transportation and being able to transport heavier loads in less time.
  • sewing machine

    sewing machine
    It is considered the first "sewing machine" in history. In the year 1830 the tailor Barthelemy Thimonnier invented a functional sewing machine. However, years later, in the French patent office, it was discovered that in 1790 Thomas Saint had patented an old sewing machine
  • pencil

    pencil
    The French inventor Nicolas-Jacques Conté invented the modern pencil, as we know it today, in 1794. This helped to have to use the typewriter that was much larger and to be able to use a thing as simple and small as a pencil
  • invention of the vaccines

    invention of the vaccines
    Edward Jenner was the one who invented vaccines. Vaccines made a great contribution to medicine, since thanks to this, many types of diseases could be eradicated
  • computer

    computer
    The first mechanical computer was created in 1822 by Charles Babbage. computers today are essential to our way of life as they help us to communicate and work with them
  • photographic camera

    photographic camera
    In 1839 Louis Daguerre patented the daguerreotype, considered the first photographic camera in history.
  • phone

    phone
    It is 145 years since Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone in 1876, referred to as a device that transmitted sounds through a cable through electrical signals. For a long time Bell was considered the inventor of the telephone, along with Elisha Gray.
  • elecricity

    elecricity
    Even today, when the power goes out, we feel that we cannot do anything. In fact, we are so used to electricity that without it we are more defenseless than all the people who lived without it for practically the entire history of mankind.
  • pen

    pen
    The ballpoint pen was invented by John J. Loud in 1888, although there is some controversy about it. He was the one who would make the first design of what we know today since he put a ball in an ink tube to be able to mark the lines on the skins he tanned.
  • radio

    radio
    Although the discovery of radio is not without controversy, on May 14, 1897, the Italian electrical engineer and Nobel Prize winner Guillermo Marconi made the first radio transmission in history.
  • plane

    plane
    Orville Wright. Man realized his dream of flight more than 100 years ago, in 1903. On May 22, 1906, the United States of America granted Patent No. 821,393 to Wilber and Orville Wright's flying machine. It was an invention that was going to change the world.
  • semiconductor

    semiconductor
    Wiliam Bradford Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain were the ones who invented the first electrical semiconductors that thanks to them it was possible to start working with electronics and electronic devices
  • ultrasounds

    ultrasounds
    In 1957, engineer Tom Brown and Dr. Ian Donald built a two-dimensional contact scanner, thus avoiding the immersion technique. They took photos with Polaroid film and published the study in 1958. IN 1957, Ian Donald began obstetric studies using echoes from the fetal skull.
  • internet

    internet
    The Internet was created by the British physicist Sir Tim Berners-Lee. revolutionized the way of life of humanity because they came with this electronic device and all kinds of things
  • smartphone

    smartphone
    In August 1996, Nokia released the Nokia 9000 Communicator, a cellular digital PDA based on the Nokia 2110 with an embedded system based on Geoworks' PEN/GEOS 3.0 operating system.