Alexander Graham Bell-1876: telephone inventors.about.com/od/.../a/telephone.htm Alexander Bain- fax machine 1843 inventors.about.com/od/.../a/fax_machine.

htm William Seward Burroughs- calculator 1885 inventors.about.com/library/.../blcalculator.htm 1972 - First hand-held scientific calculator introduced. The first hand-held, electronic scientific calculator was introduced by Hewlett Packard. The HP-35 calculator had more than the basic four operations. It could perform trigonometrical, exponential, and logarithmic functions with a single press of a button. http://chemistry.about.com/od/februaryinscience/tp/february1history.htm

Computer History Year/Enter 1936 1942 1944 1946

Computer History Inventors/Inventions Konrad Zuse - Z1 Computer John Atanasoff & Clifford Berry ABC Computer Howard Aiken & Grace Hopper Harvard Mark I Computer John Presper Eckert & John W. Mauchly ENIAC 1 Computer

Computer History Description of Event First freely programmable computer. Who was first in the computing biz is not always as easy as ABC. The Harvard Mark 1 computer. 20,000 vacuum tubes later...

1948

Frederic Williams & Tom Kilburn Baby and the Williams Tube turn on Manchester Baby Computer & the memories. The Williams Tube John Bardeen, Walter Brattain & No, a transistor is not a computer, Wiliam Shockley but this invention greatly affected the The Transistor history of computers. John Presper Eckert & John W. Mauchly UNIVAC Computer First commercial computer & able to pick presidential winners.

1947/48

1951

1953 1954

International Business Machines IBM enters into 'The History of Computers'. IBM 701 EDPM Computer John Backus & IBM FORTRAN Computer Programming Language Stanford Research Institute, Bank of America, and General Electric ERMA and MICR The first successful high level programming language. The first bank industry computer also MICR (magnetic ink character recognition) for reading checks.

1955 (In Use 1959)

1958 1962 1964 1969 1970 1971

Jack Kilby & Robert Noyce The Integrated Circuit Steve Russell & MIT Spacewar Computer Game Douglas Engelbart Computer Mouse & Windows ARPAnet Intel 1103 Computer Memory Faggin, Hoff & Mazor Intel 4004 Computer Microprocessor Alan Shugart &IBM The "Floppy" Disk Robert Metcalfe & Xerox The Ethernet Computer Networking Scelbi & Mark-8 Altair & IBM 5100 Computers Apple I, II & TRS-80 & Commodore Pet Computers

Otherwise known as 'The Chip' The first computer game invented. Nicknamed the mouse because the tail came out the end. The original Internet. The world's first available dynamic RAM chip. The first microprocessor.

1971 1973

Nicknamed the "Floppy" for its flexibility. Networking.

1974/75 1976/77 1978 1979

The first consumer computers. More first consumer computers.

Dan Bricklin & Bob Frankston Any product that pays for itself in two VisiCalc Spreadsheet Software weeks is a surefire winner. Seymour Rubenstein & Rob Barnaby WordStar Software IBM The IBM PC - Home Computer Microsoft MS-DOS Computer Operating System Apple Lisa Computer Apple Macintosh Computer Microsoft Windows Word Processors.

1981 1981

From an "Acorn" grows a personal computer revolution From "Quick And Dirty" comes the operating system of the century. The first home computer with a GUI, graphical user interface. The more affordable home computer with a GUI. Microsoft begins the friendly war with Apple.

1983 1984 1985

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blcomputer.htm Printers In 1953, the first high-speed printer was developed by Remington-Rand for use on the Univac computer.

In 1938, Chester Carlson invented a dry printing process called electrophotography commonly called a Xerox, the foundation technology for laser printers to come. The original laser printer called EARS was developed at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center beginning in 1969 and completed in November, 1971. Xerox Engineer, Gary Starkweather adapted Xerox copier technology adding a laser beam to it to come up with the laser printer. According to Xerox, "The Xerox 9700 Electronic Printing System, the first xerographic laser printer product, was released in 1977. The 9700, a direct descendent from the original PARC "EARS" printer which pioneered in laser scanning optics, character generation electronics, and page-formatting software, was the first product on the market to be enabled by PARC research." http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blcomputer_printers.htm Early Typewriters Alfred Ely Beach made a sort of typewriter as early as 1847, but he neglected it for other things. His typewriter had many of the features of the modern typewriter, however, it lacked a satisfactory method of inking the types. In 1857, S. W. Francis of New York invented a typewriter with a ribbon that was saturated with ink. Neither of these typewriters were a commercial success. They were regarded merely as the toys of ingenious men. Christopher Latham Sholes The accredited father of the typewriter was Wisconsin newspaperman, Christopher Latham Sholes. After his printers went on strike, Sholes made a few unsuccessful attempts to invent a typesetting machine. He then, in collaboration with another printer, Samuel Soule, invented a numbering machine. A friend, Carlos Glidden saw this ingenious device and suggested that they should try to invent a machine that print letters. http://inventors.about.com/od/tstartinventions/a/Typewriters.htm The mobile phone was invented in 1973 by Dr. Martin Cooper, a Motorola employee. www.ask.com ... Telecommunications