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Technology Timeline
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First Trans-Atlantic Phone Call
The first official transatlantic telephone call was made when W. S. Gifford, president of the American Telephone Telegraph Company calls Sir Evelyn P. Murray, secretary of the General Post Office of Great Britain, on the new commercial circuit -
First Film with Sound
Warner Bros released “The Jazz Singer”, the first feature-length film to incorporate synchronized sound for sequences of dialogue. -
Electirc Guitar
They were first developed in California. The invention of the pickup at this stage provide the technology which still continues to act as a basis for electric guitars today. -
Walkie Talkie
Walkie Talkies were invented by Don Hings to help pilots communicate effectively. When the Second World War broke out in 1939, their benefits for soldiers immersed in battle became clear. -
Comic Books
The earliest known comic book was “The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck”, published in Europe in several different languages. None of which were English
Four years later, an English version was published in the U.K. They were original created in 1837 however they didn't become popular until the 40s. They were a cheap and easy way to entertain people. -
Electronic Computer
The first electronic digital computers were the Colossus, built in England in 1943, and the ENIAC, built in the United States in 1945. The Atanasoff-Berry Computer was released a year later. -
Voice Reconginition
Back in 1952, Bell Labs designed its “Audrey” system, which was capable of recognizing digits spoken by a single voice, a remarkable feat for the time. -
Coloured Televison
John Logie Baird invented the color television system. By 1953, RCA devised the first complete electronic color TV system. -
Audio Cassettes
Audio Cassettes are more commonly known as cassette tapes. They were developed by the Dutch inventor and engineer Lour Ottens. -
Computer mouse
The computer mouse was made by SRI International's Douglas Engelbart. Bill English, then the chief engineer at SRI, built the first computer mouse prototype in 1964. -
Email
Ray Tomlinson invented electronic mail as we know it today, creating a networked email system for ARPANET. -
Digital Camera
Steve Sasson invented the world's first self-contained digital camera for Eastman Kodak Co. Changing the future of photography and transforming an industry. -
Samsung Phones
The SH-100 wasn't just Samsung's first portable cell phone, it was also the first Korean-manufactured handset, debuting very early on in the history of cell phones. They hit the Korean market in 1988. -
World Wide Web
Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web, know as the internet. Web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world. -
DVD
It was invented and developed in 1995 and first released on November 1, 1996, in Japan. Two groups of companies, Sony Corporation and Philips Electronics NV and the other by Toshiba Corporation and Time Warner Inc. agreed on a common format for their competing second-generation Compact Disc technologies. -
Google
Google was created in Menlo Park, California, United States by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. This has now
become the most used web-based search engine. -
Netflix
Netflix was founded by Marc Randolph and Reed Hastings. It is the most-subscribed video on demand streaming media service, with 282.7 million paid memberships in more than 190 countries as of 2024. It was first created on August 29, 1997, Scotts Valley, California, however it was not release until 2007. -
Iphone
The first iPhone model and the first smartphone developed and marketed by Apple Inc., Steve Jobs.
It is referred to as the iPhone 2G or iPhone 1 -
Disney Plus
Disney+ was launched as a domestic service in the US and Canada and then expanded internationally after November 2019.