Technology History Project

By pfrancisco12349

  • Jaquet-Droz automata

    Jaquet-Droz automata
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    The Jaquet-Droz automata was the first recorded operating "robot" that had three different automations. These three automations each did something different. There was the Musician, who was a woman that sat in the midde playing the piano, the Draughtsman, who was a child on the left side that can draw four diferent images, and the Writer, a man on the opposite side that was able to write any combination of 40 letters.

  • First UAV

    First UAV
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    The first recorded UAV (Unmanned Ariel Vehicle) was the Hewitt-Sperry which was used in World War I as a n ariel torpedo, also called a "flying bomb".

  • Herbert Televox

    Herbert Televox
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    The televox was Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co's first robot. Televox was made to accept phone calls by lifting the telephone reciever.

  • ENIAC

    ENIAC
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    ENIAC was the first electronically powered general-purpose computer. This computer was capable of being programmed to solve various selections of numerical problems.

  • Introduction to Transistors

    Introduction to Transistors
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    Transistors helped computer systems become much faster and more efficient than a computer system with vacuum tubes. Invented in 1947 and introduced in 1948 by Bell Laboratory engineers, the transistor made using computers much easier and less costly.

  • First Russian Satellite Launched

    First Russian Satellite Launched
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    The first satellite to be sent into orbit, the Sputnik, was the mark of the start of the space age. Was the world's first artificial satellite.

  • First Industrial robot

    First Industrial robot
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    Worked on the General Motors assembly line at Inland Fisher Guide Plant. Used to do jobs that would've poisoned workers by exhaust gas or cause them to lose a limb if they were not careful.

  • First Internet - ARPANET

    First Internet - ARPANET
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    The Arpanet was the first network that connected computers and was developed by the US military. The protocol TCP/IP was first developed to communicate and it is still used today.

  • The Famulus Robot

    The Famulus Robot
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    The first robot to have six electric motor-driven axes. Developed by the German company KUKA

  • Apple-1

    Apple-1
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    First Apple computer that was designed and hand built by Steve Woniak and released to the public by Steve Jobs.

  • Personal Computers (PC)

    Personal Computers (PC)
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    IBM introduced their first personal computer for home use in 1981. The number of personal computers doubled from 2 million to 5.5 million the following year. These PCs would eventually work their way to becoming laptops on desks of consumers.

  • Windows 1.0

    Windows 1.0
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    The first software update developed by Windows that is now Windows 10 today and one of the most well-known computer softwares used by consumers.

  • First Web Browser

    First Web Browser
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    NCSA Mosaic was free for internal use, licensing, modifications and/or distributions by commercial organizatoins. Mosaic continually built off of Berners-Lee's server and applied support for several factors such as graphics, sounds, and video clips.

  • 8-Legged Walking Robot

    8-Legged Walking Robot
    SourceThe first walking robot, Dante II, explored Mount Spur in Alaska. Dante II continued to be used to explore areas that would be dangerous and fatal to a normal explorer.

  • Firat Self-Replicating

    Firat Self-Replicating
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    Researchers at Cornell University develope a robot that can reproduce and replicate itself with nothing but time. Has no direct useful function but is a jump in advancement and innovations.