| 1845 | | 28 Aug:
The first issue of Scientific American is published.SA SI |
|
| 1846 | | 10 Aug:
The Smithsonian Institute is founded.SI USNA |
|
| 1863 | | 3 Mar:
The National Academy of Sciences is established.NAS Harvard |
|
| 1876 | | 10 Mar:
Alexander Graham Bell makes the first telephone call, telling his associate "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you".LoC W I R E D |
|
| 1879 | | 31 Dec:
Thomas Edison demonstrates the incandescent light bulb to the public.LoC HFM |
|
| 1880 | | 3 Jun:
Alexander Graham Bell transmits the first wireless telephone message on his newly invented photophone.LoC Vice |
|
| 1887 | |
| 1888 | | 27 Jan:
The National Geographic Society is incorporated. WHP |
|
| | 22 Sep:
The National Geographic Society begins publishing its magazine. Biblio |
|
| | 9 Dec:
Statistician Herman Hollerith's computing device is installed at the U. S. War Department.RJ GoogleBooks |
|
| 1896 | | 12 Dec:
Marconi demonstrates the radio and 5 years later, on this same day, transmits the first trans-Atlantic radio signal.W I R E D |
|
| 1911 | | 16 Jun:
The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company, the precursor to IBM, is founded in New York.IBM CHM |
|
| 1941 | | 12 May:
The first fully functional, programmable computer is unveiled.W I R E D CHM |
|
| 1943 | | 10 Jun:
Brothers László and Georg Bíró, Hungarian refugees living in Argentina, patent the ballpoint pen.W I R E D FPN |
|
| 1946 | | 13 Feb:
ENIAC, the first Electrical Numerical Integrator And Calculator, is unveiled at the University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School of Electronics.KurzweilAI AA |
|
| | 14 Feb:
ENIAC, the first large scale, general purpose, digital computer is announced to the public.UPenn CH |
|
| | 16 May:
Jack Mullin gives the first public demonstration of a professional quality tape recorder in the U. S..MoB LATimes |
|
| 1948 | | 30 Jun:
Bell Labs holds a press conference to announce their latest invention, the transistor.PBS CHM |
|
| 1951 | | 31 Mar:
UNIVAC I, the first commercially produced computer, is delivered to the United States Census Bureau.Census ETHW |
|
| 1956 | | 13 Sep:
IBM introduces the first computer hard disk drive.RN EDN |
|
| 1959 | | 6 Feb:
Texas Instruments patents the integrated circuit.EarthSky PBS |
|
| 1964 | | 2 May:
BASIC (an early computer language) is invented by John George Kemeny and Tom Kurtz of Dartmouth College.W I R E D DiTH |
|
| 1968 | | 18 Jul:
Noyce and Moore incorporate N M Electronics, soon to become Intel.FU CHM |
|
| | 9 Dec:
Douglas C. Engelbart and a group of researchers demonstrate a working computer mouse as part of the NLS - "oN Line System".Stanford SI |
|
| 1969 | | 2 Sep:
The first node of the ARPANET, the first version of the internet, goes into service.npr W I R E D |
|
| 1970 | | 17 Nov:
The patent for the computer mouse is granted to Doug Engelbart.SU GooglePatents |
|
| 1973 | | 22 May:
The computer network standard ethernet is described by Bob Metcalfe of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.W I R E D CHM |
|
| 1975 | |
| 1976 | | 1 Apr:
Apple Computer is established.AI MO |
|
| 1977 | | 5 Jun:
The first personal computer, the Apple II, goes on sale.W I R E D EDN |
|
| | 11 Jul:
The supercomputer CRAY-1A, serial number 3, is delivered to NCAR, the National Center for Atmospheric Research.CISL SketchFab |
|
| 1980 | | 30 Sep:
The specifications for the networking protocol Ethernet are published.kunbus RTA |
|
| 1981 | | 12 Aug:
The first IBM Personal Computer introduced.IBM ThoughtCo |
|
| 1983 | |
| 1984 | | 24 Jan:
The Apple Macintosh, the first commercially successful computer to use a graphical interface, is introduced.LowEndMac AI |
|
| 1985 | | 20 Nov:
Microsoft releases its first version of Windows.c|net PC |
|
| 1990 | | 25 Dec:
The World Wide Web/Internet protocol (HTTP) and WWW language (HTML) is created by Tim Berners-Lee.UIowa SA |
|
| 1991 | | 6 Aug:
Tim Berners-Lee publishes the first website.DW CHM |
|
| 1992 | | 23 Nov:
The world's first smartphone, the IBM Simon, is introduced at COMDEX in Las Vegas.Techverse ScienceInfo |
|
| 1994 | | 4 Apr:
Netscape is founded by Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark under the name "Mosaic Communications Corporation".CH PopMech |
|
| 1998 | | 7 Sep:
Larry Page and Sergey Brin establish Google.W I R E D HoI |
|
| 2007 | | 9 Jan:
Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveils the first iPhone to the world.MacWorld Apple |
|
| | 29 Jun:
The first iPhones go on sale.Apple EDN |
|
Computers & Electronics
