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Steam calculator
The Steam calculator aka Mechanical Calculator was invented around 1642. Basically, it was a calculator that ran off of steam, hence the name,"Steam Calculator!" It was first thought of in 1623 on some pages by Wilhelm Schickard! Throughout the years, some other inventors have made different versions of this device. In 1672, Gottfried Leibniz started designing an entirely new machine called the Stepped Reckoner. -
Englebart Mouse
Basically in his last name, this man invented the hardware that interacted with both hardware and software interface that could react on the screen. This also gave more control to the user on the device! This was known as the, "Mouse"! This was a thought at first in 1961, he later invented the first ever mouse in 1964! -
Apple's Rising Empire
Apple Computer, Inc. was founded on April 1, 1976, by college dropouts Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, who brought to the new company a vision of changing the way people viewed computers. Fun fact, Steve Jobs at one time owned Pixar Studios! -
Tim Berners Lee
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee OM KBE FRS FREng FRSA DFBCS RDI, also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, the HTML markup language, the URL system, and HTTP. This achievement is still used even to this very day! -
The iPhone
When the IPhone was first released, Steve Jobs had informed the public that this was the first time a screen could act both like a display and an interactive interface, meaning that the buttons were interacting on the screen itself! Though it was officially announced on January 9th of 2007, it wasn't released until June of that same year! -
The Chromebook
The Chromebook was first released in 2011 where Samsung and Google had come together to create a brand new ChromeOS (created by Google). Chromebook is able to run Android, linux, and Progressive web apps. -
The Apple Watch
How about that, science fiction is now becoming non-fiction! The new Apple Watch became a new thing that people could talk into. This was very popular, that 14 days before the watch was released, people were already pre-ordering it online!