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Jan 20, 1495
Sketched Robot
Leonardo da Vinci sketched plans for a robot that looked like a human. The robot would have been a knight that could have been used in battle.
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Feb 11, 1557
Wooden Robot
Giovanni Torriano made a wooden robot to go and get the Emperor's bread from the store everyday.
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The Duck
Jacques de Vaucanson created a mechanical device that could flap its wings, eat, and digest grain. Each wing contained more than 400 moving parts.
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First Mechanical Computer
Charles Babbage devolped the first mechanical computer. He used a difference engine for the computer. Babbage recieved help with this from Ada Lovelace. Lovelace is considered to be the first computer programmer for her work with the difference engine.
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First Conveyor Belt-based Assembly Line
Henry Ford installed the world's first conveyor belt-based assembly line in his car factory.
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First Programmable Computer
Konrad Zuse made the first prgrammable computer in his parents' living room. It's considered to be the first electo-mechanical binary programmable computer. It is also considered to be the first fuctional modern computer. Kruse called this the Z1.
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First Commercial Computer Sold
Konrad Zuse built the first commercial computer. This computer was called the Z4. Eduard Stiefel bought the computer. Stiefel was a mathematician for the Swiss Federal Inistitute of Technology.
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First Modern Robot
George Devol intented and patented a reprogrammable manipulator. He called is an Unimate. He attempted to sell this product but nobody wanted to buy it.
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Wide Area Network
Thomas Marill and Lawrence Roberts created the first wide area network. Wide area network is where the computer connected could be away from the actual computer.
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Shakey The Robot
Charles Rosen led a team in devloping a robot called "Shakey". Shakey was far more advanced than the Unimate. Shakey could move around the room and watch the scene on a tv. Shakey got it's name because of it's wobbly and clattering movements.
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The First Commercially Sold Industrial Robot
Cincinnati Milacrom relased the first minicomputer controlled industrial robot. The robot was commercially availible. The robot was called the T3. -
The RB5X
The RB5X was a programmable robot equipped with infared sensors, remote audio/vieo transmission, bumbsensors, and a voice synthesizer. The softway could enable it to learn about its environments.
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The Aquarobot
A walking robot called the Aquarobot was created in Japan. The robot was made for undersea use.
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Home Broadband
Home broadband was created. In 2001, home broadband entered mainstream usuage and began to become faster then internet dial up.
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