1. This is where it all started Paul Williams
Technology Timeline
This is where it all started
Paul Williams

2. 2400 BC-724
2400 BC- Abacus: The abacus, the first known calculator was invented in Babylonia.
500 BC- Pinini: Introduced the forerunner to modern formal language theory.
300 BC- Pingala: Pingala invented the binary number system.
87 BC- Antikythera Mechanism: Built in Rhodes to track movement of stars.
60 AD- Heron of Alexandria- Heron of Alexandria invents machines which follow a series of instructions.
724- Liang Ling-Can: Liang Ling- Can invents the fully mechanical clock.

3.
1492- Leonardo de Vinci: Drawing by Leonardo depict inventions such as flying machines, including a helicopter, the first mechanical calculator and one of the first programmatic robots.
1622- William Oughtred: William Oughtred develops slide rules.
1623- Wilhelm Schickard invented the calculating clock.
1801- Joseph-Marie Jacquard: Joseph- Marie Jacquard invents an automatic loom controlled by punch cards.
1822-Charles Babbage: Charles designs his first mechanical computer.
1835- Morse Code- Samuel Morse invents Morse Code.

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1880- Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone called the Photophone.
1884- The Comptometer is an invention of Dorr E. Felt which is operated by pressing keys.
1895- Radio signals were invented by Guglielmo Marconi.
1896- Herman Hollerith forms the Tabulating Machine Company which later becomes IBM.
1911- IBM is formed on June 15, 1911.
1923- Television Electronic was invented by Philo Farnsworth.

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1924-Electro Mechanical television system was invented by John Logic Baird.
1924- Walther Bothe develops the logic gate.
1930-Vannevaar Bush develops a partly electronic Difference Engine.
1937- Alan Turing develops the concept of a theoretical computing machine.
1939- William Hewlett and David Packard starts Hewlett Packard.
1943- Adolf Hitler uses the Enigma encryption machine.
1944- Howard Aiken and Grace Hopper designed the MARK series of computers at Howard University.
1945- The term “bug” as computer was first used by Grace Hopper.

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1946-F.C. Williams develops his cathode-ray tube (CRT) storing device the forerunner to random-access memory (RAM).
1947- Douglas Engelbart theories on interactive computing with keyboard and screen display instead of on punch cards.
1949- Howardd Aiken develops the Harvard-MARK III.
1950- The first electronic computer is created in Japan by Hideo Yamachito.
1951- T. Raymond Thompson and John Simmons develop the first business computer. The Lyons Electronic Office (LEO) at Lyons Co.

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1953-IBM 701 becomes available and total of 19 are sold to the scientific community.
1954- Jogn Backus & IBM develop the FORTRAN Computer Programming Language.
1955- Bell Labs introduces it’s first transistor computer.
1958- (Advanced Research Projects Agency) and NASA is formed.
1960- The Common Business- Oriented Language (COBOL) programming language is invented.
1962- The first computer game Spacewar Computer Game invented by Steve Russell & MIT.
1964- IBM introduces the first word professor.

8. 1967-1975 1967-IBM creates the first floppy disk.
1969- Seymour Cray develops the CDC 7600, the first supercomputer.
1970- Intel introduces the world’s first available dynamic RAM (random-access memory) chip and the first microprocessor, the Intel
was invented by Ray Tomlinson.
1972- The compact disc is invented in the United States.
1975-Altair produces the first portable computer.

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1976- Apple Computers were founded by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs.
1978- The first magnetic tape is developed in the US.
1979- Over half a million computers are in the use in the United States.
1981 MS-DOS Computer Operating System increases its success.
1984- Apple introduces the Macintosh with mouse and window interface.
1985- The Nintendo Entertainment System makes its debut.
1987- Microsoft introduces Microsoft Works.

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1990- Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau proposed a ‘hypertext’ system starting the modern internet.
1991- The World Wide Web is launched to the public on August 6,
1994- Yahoo is created on April,
1995- Java, Amazon, Ebay, and Hotmail is created.
1998- Google is founded by Sergey Brin and Larry Page on September 7,
2006- Skype announces that it has over 100 million registered users.

11. References
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