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Telephone (extra)
Alexander Graham Bell invented the first ever telephone in 1876.
It was a race between him Elisha Gray and he beat her by a matter of hours. Telephones grew quickly, from one phone in 1876 to 11 million phones nationwide by 1915, only in US. Today over a hundred years later we still use his innovation. -
Airplane (extra)
The first ever airplane was made by Wilbur and Orville Wright on december 17 1903. It was called the Wright Flyer. The brothers developed an interest in aviation (i know what it means) after learning of the glider flights of the German engineer Otto Lilienthal in the 1890s. -
Enigma machine
The Enigma machine was invented in 1919 by Hugo Koch. It looked like a typewriter and was originally employed for business purposes. It was then developed and used to protect commercial, diplomatic and military communication. It was employed extensively by Nazi Germany during World War II. -
Television
The first electric television was invented in september 7 1927 by Philo Farnsworth, Charles Francis Jenkins and John Logie Baird. The first mechanical TV station was called W3XK. It aired its first ever broadcast on july 2 1928. People use the television daily for entertainment, news, education, culture, weather, sport etc. The first ever set of televisions were sold for $1295 and ther were only 500 made. -
ENIAC
ENIAC was the first programmable, electronic computer, built during the world war II. the work began in early 1943 it was then fully developed in februari 15 1946. John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert was the key engineers. It was used by the military for calculating artillery fire. It was used to hit targets accurately in different conditions. -
FORTRAN
Fortran was the first ever commercially available programming language. It was first developed in 1954 by John Backus and where first published in 1957. It was designed to solve mathematical problems and formulas. Fortran inspired languages like java and python which are important because almost every software are using these two programming languages. -
microprocessor
Created in January 1971 by a team of logic architects and silicon engineers for Japanese calculator manufacturer Busicom. The centerpiece of the four-chip set was the 4004 initially described as a 4-bit microprogrammable CPU. A Microprocessor is an important part of a computer architecture without which you will not be able to perform anything on your computer. It is a programmable device that takes in input perform some arithmetic and logical operations over it and produce desired output. -
Portable computer
The first portable computer was the IBM 5100, released in September 1975. It weighed 55 pounds (24,9kg) which was much lighter and more portable than any other computer to date. It was the evolution of a prototype called the SCAMP (Special Computer APL Machine Portable) that was developed at the IBM Palo Alto Scientific Center in 1973. The Portable Computer was intended to put computer capabilities at the fingertips of engineers, analysts, statisticians and other problem-solvers. -
Archie
The first ever search engine was Archie. It was created by Alan Emtage computer science student at McGill University and was released in september 10 1990. It allowed users to look around
Internet and search for stuff. But it had limited functionalities especially when compared to current search engines. Archie inspired other search engines such as google, yahoo, bing etc which people use everyday. -
Smartphone/Personal communicator
The first smartphone was created by the tech company IBM. It was invented in 1992 and was called the Simon Personal Communicator. It was released for purchase in 1994 for $899. It was 20cm by 6cm by 3cm and there was 2000 made of them in total. This invention changed the world because it made it easier and more efficient for people to communicate with each other at a distance.