Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The history of
computers
- 1804
- Frances Joseph-Marie
Jacquard completes his
fully automated loom that is
programmed by punched
cards.
- 1809
- An early telegraph
machine is invented
- 1820
- The first calculating machine
is invented. Called the
Arithometer.
- 1825
- The earliest surviving
photograph is taken
- 1837
- Charles Babbage first used
the Analytical Machine which
was the first computer to use
punch cards as memory
- 1838
- Morse code is invented
- 1857
- The first sound
transcriber was
invented
- 1861
- The first colour
photograph is taken
- 1876
- Alexander
Graham Bell
invents the first
telephone
- 1878
- The first motion
picture
- 1901
- The first radio
message is sent
across the Atlantic
Ocean
- 1903
- Nikola Tesla invents electrical
circuits called "switches"
- 1907
- Charles Babbage's youngest
son completes some of the
Analytical Engine and
performs basic calculations.
- 1926
- The first semiconductor
transistor is created
- 1935
- The first lie detector
is used
- 1936
- The Z1 is created, one of the first
binary computers and a machine
controlled by punch tape
- 1936
- The first Printed Circuit
Board is invented
- 1936
- The Turing Machine is
invented
- 1937
- The first electronic computer is
invented
- 1939
- The first calculator is
completed
- 1940
- The first hand held two-way
radio is invented
- 1944
- Grace Hopper
becomes the first
programmer
- 1944
- The first binary and
partially
programmable
computer was created
at Bletchley Park
- 1949
- The concept of a computer program
capable of reproducing itself was
mentioned
- 1950
- The first
electronic
computer was
created in Japan
- 1953
- The first colour TV show
- 1955
- Whirlwind machine created. The
first digital computer with a
magnetic core RAM
- 1955
- First transistor
computer
created
- 1958
- First computer
game released
- 1960
- 2000 computers are in
use in the US
- 1971
- The first floppy disk drive
- 1971
- Ray Tomlinson sends
the first email
- 1973
- The first mobile phone
is created
- 1977
- Apple computer becomes
incorporated
- 1977
- Apple creates the
first personal
colour computer
- 1979
- More than half a million
computers are in use in
the US