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The history of computers
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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
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