Innovations

By 14shotea

  • First Photograph

    Nicéphore Niépce developed heliography, a technique used to produce the world's first known photograph in 1825.

  • First Incandescent Light Bulb

    Joseph Swan (1828–1914) was a British physicist and chemist. In 1850, he began working with carbonized paper filaments in an evacuated glass bulb. By 1860, he was able to demonstrate a working device but the lack of a good vacuum and an adequate supply of electricity resulted in a short lifetime for the bulb and an inefficient source of light. This innovation can be categorized as a discovery.

  • Invention of the Telephone

    Alexander Bell and his assistant, Thomas Watson were acredited with the invention of the modern telephone although many people took part in the invention. He is best known because his name was one of the first words spoken over the telephone. "Mr. Watson - Come here - I want to see you." This innovation can be described as a discovery

  • First Computer

    Konard Zuse, a German Engineer, on 12 May 1941 Zuse presented Z3, built in his workshop, to the public.Z3 was a binary 22-bit floating point calculator featuring programmability with loops but without conditional jumps, with memory and a calculation unit based on telephone relays.

  • First Public Cellphone

    While at Motorola in the 1970s, Cooper conceived the first handheld mobile phone (distinct from the car phone) and led the team that developed it and brought it to market. He is considered the "father of the cell phone" and is also cited as the first person in history to make a handheld cellular phone call in public.

  • First Microsoft Computer

    Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows as a graphical operating system shell for MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces (GUI).[2] Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal computer market with over 90% market share, overtaking Mac OS, which had been introduced in 1984.

  • JAVA

    The programming language JAVA was released to the public by its developers at Sun.Java is a general-purpose, concurrent, class-based, object-oriented computer programming language that is specifically designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible.

  • First Smartphone

    The first Symbian phone, the touchscreen Ericsson R380 Smartphone, was released and was the first device to be marketed as a 'smartphone'.It combined a PDA with a mobile phone. This is an example of an innovation upon the traditional cell phone and computing device with an operating system.

  • First Iphone

    The original iPhone was introduced by Steve Jobs in a keynote address at the Macworld Conference & Expo held in Moscone West in San Francisco, California.In his address, Jobs said, "I have been looking forward to this for two and a half years", and that "today, Apple is going to reinvent the phone." Jobs introduced the iPhone as a combination of three devices: a "widescreen iPod with touch controls"; a "revolutionary mobile phone"; and a "breakthrough Internet communicator.

  • First Tablet by Apple

    The device features an Apple A4 processor, a 9.7" touchscreen display and the capability of accessing Cellular networks, though the latter is only available on certain variants of the first generation iPad. Using the iOS operating system, the iPad can play music, send and receive email and browse the web. Other functions, which include the ability to play games and access references, GPS navigation software and social network services can be enabled by downloading apps.