Technology Throughout History

By 21greggh

  • Microsoft Windows Epoch

    The Microsoft Windows Epoch time is set to start on January 1, 1601. https://www.computerhope.com/history/1951.htm

  • Pascaline

    Frances Blaise Pascal invents a machine, called the Pascaline, that can add, subtract, and carry between digits. https://www.computerhope.com/history/1951.htm

  • Step Reckoner

    Gottfried Leibniz introduces the Step Reckoner, a device that can multiply, divide, and evaluate square roots.https://www.computerhope.com/history/1951.htm

  • Typewriter

    The first writing device (similar to a typewriter) to be patented is patented by Henry Mill in London England.https://www.computerhope.com/history/1951.htm

  • Telegraph

    The first telegraph is built.https://www.computerhope.com/history/1951.htm

  • Semaphore Line

    Claude Chappe invents a semaphore line, a method of communicating over long distances.https://www.computerhope.com/history/1951.htm

  • Calculator

    Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar creates the "Arithometer," the first reliable, useful, and commercially successful calculating machine. The calculator could not only add but also subtract, multiply, and divide.https://www.computerhope.com/history/1951.htm

  • First Photo

    The earliest known surviving photograph is taken by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in 1825 of a view of a courtyard from his window.

  • First time that signals could be transmitted between two telegraphs

    On October 21, 1832, Pavel Schilling became the first to transmit signals between two telegraphs in different rooms of his apartment.

  • First computer to use punchcards

    Charles Babbage first purposed the Analytical Engine, which was the first computer to use punch cards as memory and a way to program the computer.

  • First color photo

    First color photo
    The first known permanent color photograph is taken of a Tartan Ribbon by the photographer Thomas Sutton.https://www.computerhope.com/history/1951.htm

  • Trans-Atlantic cable

    The first successful Trans-Atlantic cable is laid from Ireland to Newfoundland. https://www.computerhope.com/history/1951.htm

  • First radio message

    The first radio message was sent across the Atlantic Ocean in Morse code.https://www.computerhope.com/history/1951.htm

  • First AM radio

    Reginald Fessenden made the first AM radio broadcast.https://www.computerhope.com/history/1951.htm

  • Start on lithium battery

    G. N. Lewis began work on the lithium battery.https://www.computerhope.com/history/1951.htm

  • First phone call

    The first telephone call was made across the continent.https://www.computerhope.com/history/1951.htm

  • Camera

    Camera
    Nikon was founded in 1917.

  • First radio broadcasting

    First radio broadcasting began in United States, Pittsburgh, PA.

  • Joystick

    Joystick
    The first joystick was invented by C.B. Mirick at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory.

  • Semiconductor transistor

    The first patent for the semiconductor transistor was created

  • TV signal

    Philo Taylor Farnsworth became the first person to successfully transmit a TV signal on September 7, 1927.

  • Atomic clock

    Atomic clock
    The first atomic clock was built in 1949 at the U.S. National Bureau of Standards.

  • Iphone X

    Iphone X
    November 3,2017 apple created the Iphone X for the 10th anniversary for the company.