By: Tamaira Glover & Kristy Lee ! Our Timeline . By: Tamaira Glover & Kristy Lee !
1802 Richard Trevithick granted a patent for the steam locomotive 1802 Commercial electric motor invented by Thomas Davenport
1843 Typewriter invented by Charles Thurber Phonographic Correspondence Society formed in England
1856 Book & newspaper folding machine patented by Cyrus Chambers, Jr. Property of magneto-resistance was discovered by William Thomson
1868 The electric voice machine was patented by Thomas Edison Trachoma color photo process patented by Louis Duos du Huron
1877 Microphone invented by Emile Berliner Process for hard drawn copper wire developed by Thomas Doolittle 1877 First tape recorded voice by Thomas Edison Phonograph invented by Thomas Edison Household use of electricity made available by Thomas Edison
1884 Linotype machine invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler 1884 Data processing machine and punch cards invented by Herman Hollerith
1895 Radio signals invented by Guglielmo Marconi Cinematograph developed by Augusta and Louis Lumpier
1923 Sound film invented by Lee DeForest Television invented by Philo Farnsworth
1956 Optical fibers invented by B. Hirschowitz, C. W. Peters, and L. Curtiss Videocassette recorder invented by Charles Paulson Ginsburg with Ampex
1958 First integrated circuit produced in the U.S. by Jack Kirby and Robert Nonce Computers built with transistors mark beginning of second generation computers
1959 More than 200 programming languages are created by this date International Business Machines (IBM ) creates desk-sized computers for businesses and scientists
1984 IBM produces the PC AT with an Intel 80286 microprocessor Hewlett Packard produces first Laser Jet printers for PCs Apple manufactures the MacIntosh computer with a graphical user interface