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Invention of Steam Calculator
The steam calculator was invented by an English mathematician by the name of Charles Babbage. -
Invention of Hollerith Punch Cards
Herman Hollerith was a German-American statisician, inventor, and businessman who developed an electromechanical tabulating machine for punched cards to help summarize information and would later go on to be of help to the accounting community. -
Alan Turing's Universal Turing Machine
Alan Turing was a British mathematician and logician who invented this machine that encapsulates the fundamental logical principals of the digital computer. -
Founding of hp
hp was founded by Bill Hewlett and David Packard who both graduated with degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University. -
Introduction of Grasshopper COBOL
Grace Hopper and fellow colleagues introduced COBOL to a group representing computer user, programmers, manufactures, etc. -
Creation of Engelbart's GUI
Douglas Engelbart, along with Bill English at the Stanford Research Institute came up with the prototype that is now on loan to the museum from SRI international. -
Creation of Apple
Apple Inc, that was originally named Apple Computer Inc. was founded by Steve Jobs , Steve Wozniak, and Bill Fernandez. -
Creation of "Windows"
Founded by Pual Allen and Bill Gates, Windows was announced in 1983, however it took a while to develop. Two year after the initial announcement, Microsoft windows was released to the public. -
Invention of "World Wide Web" aka www
The World Wide Web was introduced to the world by a man named Sir Tomothy John or Tim Berners-Lee. He was later awared the ACM A.M Turing Prize for his accomplishment in April of 2017. -
Invention of WIFI
The invention of wifi is credited to an Australian research team that was led by John O'Sullivan who developed a patent used in Wi-Fi as a by-product of a research project completed in 1992. However, the "father of Wi-Fi is actually considered to be Victor Hayes because he helped establish the groundwork for Wi-Fi implementation. -
First Apple iPhone
The iPhone was the first smartphone designed and marketed by Apple Inc. After many years of speculation, it was finally released. -
First Chromebook
Samsung came together with Acer and brough the first Chromebook to the market. The creation of Chromebooks were announced in May of 2011 and were released the following month. -
First Apple Watch
The 1st Generation Apple Watch, also known as the Apple Watch Series 0.