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On 12 May 1941 Konrad Zuse presented the Z3, which was the first fully functional (programmable and automatic) digital computer. -
The telegraph was invented in 1835, the first telegram was published in 1844. -
The telephone was invented in 1876 by Alexander Graham Bell, it was invented to make calls to other people, but nowadays it is also used to have applications, send messages... -
The Italian Guillermo Marconi achieved the link across the English Channel between Dover (England) and Boulogne (France), at a distance of 48 km, in what was the first transmission between the two countries. -
Television was invented by John Logie Baird in 1923 in the town of Hastings, England and the first television picture was broadcast by Baird in 1926. -
They were popularised by Apple with the famous iPad, but who invented the tablet? It was the American engineer Alan Kay who first proposed something very similar to a tablet in 1968. -
The first mobile phone call was made in 1973 in New York, by the engineer Martin Cooper, known as the father of the mobile phone.