The Time of the Computers

By Landri13

  • The First Telephone

    The First Telephone
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    The first teleohone, was designed telephone was made by Alexander Graham Bell. Alexander's first drawing was designed on March 7 of 1876. Then on March 10, Alexander spoke into his phone "Watson come here, I want to see you", and Watson came.

  • The First T.V.

    The First T.V.
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    Actually, the word Televison came from the language Greek, meaning far.The first T.V. had exactly one channel (talk about options). Watching DVD's on T.V. didn't come until 1997.

  • HP 200A Audio Oscillator

    HP 200A Audio Oscillator
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    In January 1939, David Packard and Bill Hewlett made the HP 200A Audio Oscillator in a garage in California. Later in 1940, Walt Disney ordered eight Oscillator's for sound effects for the movie "Fantasia".

  • The Complex Number Calculator (CNC)

    The Complex Number Calculator (CNC)
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    On September 11, 1939, George Stibitz's CNC design was finsihed at Bell Telephone Labatories. Later in the year 1940, George Stibitz introduced the CNC at an American Mathematical soceity conferance.

  • THE ENIAC

    THE ENIAC
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    In the time 1942-1945, John Mauchly and John Presper Eckert developed the ENIAC. Mauchly and Eckert were funded by the governement for military purposes. By the time the ENIAC was fully completed, the war was over. However, the ENIAC was still being examined by the military.

  • Britain's Pilot Ace

    Britain's Pilot Ace
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    Britain's Pilot Ace was made by Alan Turing in 1950. This machine had 800 vaccuum tubes, and took up 12 square feet of floor space.

  • Networking: Dataphone

    Networking: Dataphone
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    This was the one of the first early phones made in 1960.The Dataphone offered an option for a fast, high quality communication source.

  • ARPANET

    ARPANET
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    The ARPANET was one of the first world's packing switching networks.The project was first funded by ARPA, but later changed to DARPA. The ARPANET and TCP/IP, became the base for how the Internet works.

  • LINC (Laboratory Instrumentation Computer)

    LINC (Laboratory Instrumentation Computer)
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    The LINC was designed by Wesley Clark. He designed it at LIncoln Labatories. Later the LINC was re-named to LINC-8.

  • SRI International´s Shakey

    SRI International´s Shakey
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    SRI International´s Shakey, was the first controlled robot by intelligence.SRI could aslo roam the halls with a detection bumper and laser range finder.

  • The First Boombox

    The First Boombox
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    The first boombox was actually made in the Netherlands by Philips in 1969. Most boomboxes were battery-powered, so that led to bigger and heavier boxes. Bigger and more powerful boomboxes could hold 10 D batteries.

  • The first Cell Phone

    The first Cell Phone
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    The first cell phone was made by Martin Cooper. This phone weighed 1.1 kilograms, and was 23 cm long.These phones only allowed 30 minutes of talking, and took 10 hours to recharge.

  • Osborne I

    Osborne I
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    The Osborne I was the first successful portable computer. It weighed 23.5 pounds, and cost about $1,800. The Osborne I was made by Adam Osborne and designed by Lee Felsenstein.

  • Graphics and Games "Doom"

    Graphics and Games "Doom"
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    Doom was released in late 1993. This game was very popular, until the games Halo, and Counter-Strike. Later in 2005, Doom produced several sequels.

  • The Mosaic web browser

    The Mosaic web browser
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    At the University of Illinois’s National Center for Supercomputer Applications, Eric Bina and Marc Andreessen designed the Mosaic web browser. By 1994, the Mosaic was available for operating MacOS and other operating systems.