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Robots
Elektro the robot appears at the World's Fair. Showing the audience he can move is head, arms, "smoke" cigarettes, and respond to the rhythm of voice. -
Early Computer
An early computer called Z3 is completed by German engineer Konrad Zuse. -
Calculator
The Harvard Mark 1, a room sized, relay based calculator is completed by physics professor Howard Aiken. -
ENIAC
Built by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, the ENIAC was an electronic computer over 1,000 times faster than any previous computer. -
Commercial Computer
The first commercially avalible general purpose computer, Mark 1, is completed and sold. -
Computer Game
Alexander Douglas designs one of the first computer games. Tic-Tac-Toe was played on the EDSAC computer in Britain. -
Keyboards
Doug Ross connects a Flexowriter to an MIT computer and confirms how useful a keyboard can be. -
Images
Robert Kirsch designed a rotating drum scanner that allowed him to digitalize a five-by-five cenitmeter black and white shot of his son. The first image to be scanned into a computer. -
Music
Bell Labs develops a speech synthesis system. John Kelly and Carol Lochbaum programmed the vocals and Max Mathews programmed the accompaniment. Author Arthur C. Clarke recommended the system to director Stanley Kubrick for his film 2001: A Space Odyssey. -
Calculator
The Programma 101 calculator goes on sale. This calculator could do addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and calculate square roots. -
Brown Box
Ralph Baer designs the Brown Box. It allows users to play several different games on a TV. -
Memory Chip
The 1KB Intel 1103 memory chip is introduced. Its magnetic core memory ushers in the era of dynamic random-access memory. -
Phones
Some speculations for a new iPone design include a total glass body, curved edges, larger, and with more technology advances added to the future phone that we discover through time. -
3-D Printing
3-D printing makes three dimensional solid objects from a digital file you've created. Around 2021 is when I guess that 3-D printer will be in everyone's home. -
Holograms
Holograms are 3-D images that are captured and projected on a 2-D surface. Sometime in the future I bet everyone will have a hologram in their home.
