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1900-1909:
- 1900 First Radiotelephone (US)
- 1900 Air Conditioning (US)
- 1900 R. A. Fessenden transmits human speech via radio waves (US)
- 1900 Ferdinand Zeppelin invents lighter than air ship (Germany)
- 1901 Guglielmo Marconi (Italian born) transmits transatlantic telegraphic radio messages
- 1901 Electric typewriter Blickensderfer (US)
- 1901 Electric Vacuum Cleaner (US)
- 1901 The Indian Rubber Head a "magical" film (France) George Melies
- 1902 The Curies isolate the element Radium (France)
- 1903 First Feature Film, "The Great Train Robbery" by Edwin Porter, using Edison Vitascope Projection System (US)
- 1903 Wright Brothers first flight (US)
- 1903 First Electrocardiograph (Netherlands)
- 1905 Albert Einstein formulates Theory of Relativity
- 1904 Vacuum (Thermonic Diode Valve) Tube (Britain)
- 1906 1st Victrola Disk Phonograph with horn inside cabinet
- 1906 Fessenden broadcasts speech/music radio program to shipboard wireless operators
- 1906 Photocopier Patented (US)
- 1906 Sound on Film (Britain)
- 1907 Lee De Forest Audion Amplifier Vacuum Tube (triode valve) (US)
- 1907 Electric Washing Machine (US)
- 1908 Plan for TV patented (Britain)
- 1908 Tungsten Filament for lightbulbs (US)
1910-19
- 1912 Heating Pad (US)
- 1913 Hans Geiger invents Geiger Counter (Britain)
- 1913 Diesel Electric Rail Car (Sweden)
- 1913 Home Refrigerator (US)
- 1913 Portable phonograph released
- 1914 Charles Pajeau introduces Tinkertoys (US)
- 1914 Leica still 35mm camera (Germany)
- 1915 Ford assembly line built cars number 1 million (US)
- 1915 Wireless Service between US and Japan
- 1915 DW Griffith epic film Birth of a Nation (US)
- 1916 David Sarnoff proposes radio music box (US)
- 1918 Strite invents the automatic toaster (US)
- 1919 Shortwave Radio Invented
1920-29
- 1920 First Commercial Radio Station KDKA (US)
- 1920 Electrical Recording Process (Britain)
- 1922 First Car Radio William Lear (US)
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1922 RADAR invented by Taylor & Young (US)
- 1922 First 3-D movie requiring special glasses
- 1923 Iconoscope tube is patented by Zworykin, the forerunner of television picture tube
- 1923 Lee de Forest demonstrates process for sound motion pictures
- 1923 John Harwood invents self winding wristwatch
- 1924 Rice-Kellogg invent the Dynamic Loudspeaker (US)
- 1924 Over 600 Commercial Radio Stations
- 1925 First All Electric Phonograph (US)
- 1925 John Baird transmit recognizable human by television (Britain)
- 1925 First electronic recordings made with the use of a microphone released to the public
- 1926 1st all-electronic television image produced by Philo T. Farnsworth
- 1926 Edison announces 12 inch disk phonograph record capable of holding 20 minutes of music per side
- 1926 First public demonstration of Television (Britain)
- 1926 Electric Toaster
- 1926 Kodak produces first 16mm movie film (US)
- 1927 First Global Regulatory Body for Radio
- 1927 BBC established (Britain)
- 1927 Transatlantic Telephone Service (US, Britain)
- 1927 The Jazz Singer, first successful commercial talking film (US)
- 1928 Teletype machine introduced
- 1928 Differential Computer (US)
- 1928 Iconoscope Camera Tube for Television (US)
- 1928 First Video Recordings (Britain)
- 1928 Electronic Projector Tube (US)
- 1928 Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin (Britain)
- 1929 First Television Telephone exhibited (Germany)
- 1929 Vladimir Kosma Zworykin (Russian Born) demonstrates television receiver containing his 'kinescope,' a cathode-ray tube (US)
1930-39
- 1930 Flash bulb (Germany)
- 1931 Columbia announces Long Playing Records LP's (US)
- 1931 First experimental stereo recordings by Bell Labs (US)
- 1931 Electron microscope
- 1931 First radio telescope (US)
- 1933 Edwin Howard Armstrong invents invention of wide-band frequency modulation FM Radio
- 1935 IBM 601, a punch card machine with an arithmetic unit based on relays, capable of doing a multiplication problem in 1 second (US)
- 1935 Tape recorder using iron oxide powder coated onto a plastic tape Magnetophon (Germany)
- 1935 Kodachrome Color film (US)
- 1935 Regular TV Service (Germany)
- 1937 George R. Stibitz the two-digit binary adder
- 1937 Alan Turing first postulates Turing Machine using mechanisms related to the computer concepts of input, output and a program
- 1938 Cathode Ray Tube for Color TV transmission (Germany)
- 1938 Color TV public demonstration (Britain)
- 1938 Helmut Schreyer & Konrad Zuse build prototype electromechanical binary programmable calculating machine (later became known as Z1) (Germany)
- 1938 Lajos Biro invents Ballpoint Pen (Hungary)
- 1939 First regular US TV Service launches live at the World’s Fair (US)
- 1939 Dishwasher patented
- 1939 Binary Computer operational for complex arithmetic by George R. Stibitz & S.B. Williams at Bell Labs
1940-49
- 1942 Magnetic recording tape invented Marvin Camras
- 1942 Coast to Coast Underground Telephone Cable (US)
- 1943 The Colossus built, early electronic computer
- 1943 Harvard Mark 1 Automatic Sequence Controlled Computer (US)
- 1944 First High-Fidelity Records (Britain)
- 1945 Konrad Zuse creates Plankalkul, the first algorithmic programming language (Germany)
- 1946 Chester Carlson invents xerography process
- 1946 Microwave Oven by Percy L. Spencer
- 1946 Early Electronic Computer ENIAC by J.P. Eckert & J.W. Mauchly (US)
- 1946 First Photosetting Machine (France)
- 1947 Edwin Land invents Polaroid Camera (US)
- 1947 Sir Frederick Williams creates a tube for binary display (Britain)
- 1947 John Bardeen, Walter Houser Brattain & William Shockley of Bell Labs invent transistor (US)
- 1947 Holography (Britain)
- 1947 Tape Recorder for home use
- 1948 SSEM (baby) predessor to Mark-1 first computer that could store data & a user program in electronic memory and process it at electronic speed.
- 1948 Peter C. Goldmark, invents Long Playing Records LP’s playing at 33 1/3 (US)
- 1948 First Cable TV transmission (US)
- 1948 Atomic clock is introduced
- 1948 Wire based home audio recorders popularized (US)
- 1949 First Stored Program Computer BINAC built by John William Mauchley & John Presper Eckert (US)
- 1949 RCA Victor introduces its 45 rpm record player with record changer
- 1949 Claude Shannon of MIT builds the first chess playing machine (US)
- 1949 Automatic Binding Bricks, a forerunner of the LEGO is manufactured by Lego Company (Denmark)
1950-59
- 1950 First Commercial Computer Univac1 (US)
- 1950 Simon first digital personal computer constructed based on plans published by Edmund Berkeley (US)
- 1951 Regular Commercial Color TV (US)
- 1951 Magnetic video tape recorder developed by Armour Research
- 1951 Grace Murray Hopper invents first computer language compiler, A0
- 1951 First Jukebox in the 45-rpm records format introduced by AMI company
- 1952 Commercial Jet Service (Britain)
- 1952 IBM introduces the 701 36-bit Computer
- 1952 EDVAC Computer built with clock speed of 1 MHz
- 1952 Cinerama Films first panoramic movie developed by Waller (US)
- 1953 Electronic Music Synthesizer (US)
- 1953 John Backus programmed IBM's 701 computer using speedcoding
- 1954 Microwave Amplifier (US)
- 1955 Narinder S. Kapany discovers optical fiber (India)
- 1955 Transistorized computers developed by Bell Telephone (US)
- 1955 Univac introduces commercially available computer using transistors (US)
- 1955 Edmund C. Berkeley distributes GENIAC digital personal computer
- 1956 First Transatlantic telephone cable (US, Britain)
- 1956 First Keyboard input developed at MIT (US)
- 1956 Video Tape Recorder
- 1957 Sputnik satellite (Russia)
- 1957 Electric wristwatch marketed (US)
- 1957 Bang & Olufsen introduced the world's first stereo pickup, the "SP1" (Denmark)
- 1957 Portable electric typewriter
- 1958 First stereo LP records released
- 1958 Jack Kirby develops integrated circuit at Texas Instruments (US)
- 1958 Willy Higinbotham invents first Video Game at Brookhaven National Laboratory
- 1959 Heathkit introduces EC-1 an analog desktop computer in kit form
1960-69
- 1960 PDP1 Programmed Data Processor predecessor of mini computer released by Digital Equipment Corporation (US)
- 1960 Common Business Oriented Language program language (COBOL) developed (US)
- 1960 John McCarthy creates LISP first computer language designed specifically for writing artificial intelligence programs
- 1960 Frank Rosenblatt completes Perceptron Computer that learns by trial & error
- 1961 Telstar 1 first transatlantic communications satellite launched for live TV(US)
- 1962 Gerhard M. Sessler & James E. West invent the Foil Electret Microphone
- 1962 First Stereo FM Broadcasts
- 1962 Earl Muntz invents the Muntz Stereo-Pak, a 4-track system predessor to the 8 track tape system
- 1963 Cassette tape recorders marketed (Netherlands)
- 1963 D. Gregg develops videodisk that stores several minutes worth of images
- 1963 American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) accepted
- 1963 Ivan Sutherland develops Sketchpad, a real time computer drawing system (US)
- 1963 Anita, first fully electronic desktop calculator released by Bell Punch & Sumlock-Comptometer (UK)
- 1964 IBM 360 Computer becomes commercial success (US)
- 1964 Thomas Kurtz and John Kemeny develop BASIC computer language (US)
- 1964 MD-5 All Transistorized desktop electronic calculator displayed by SONY at the World's Fair (Japan)
- 1965 Dolby Noise Reduction introduced for audio recording equipment (US)
- 1967 First television transmission by Laser (US)
- 1967 Seymour Papert develops LOGO computer language for children to control Turtle (US)
- 1967 Jack Kirby, Jerry D. Merryman and James Van Tassel invent, Cal Tech first electronic hand held calculator
- 1968 X-Y Position Indicator for a Display System first computer mouse invented by Douglas Engelbart (US)
- 1968 Burroughs introduces B2500 & 3500 first computers with integrated circuits (US)
- 1969 First Humans on the Moon
- 1969 First Automatic Cash Dispensing Machine (ATM prototype) installed in a Long Island, New York branch of Chemical Bank (US)
- 1969 First Large Scale Integration calculator Sharp QT-8 using Rockwell IC chips (Japan)
- 1969 UNIX developed by Bell Labs (US)
- 1969 Arpanet Computer Network becomes operational (US)
1970-79
- 1970 First Commercial Handheld Electronic Calculator Pocketronic (Japan)
- 1970 Quadraphonic records and tapes marketed (US)
- 1970 150 inch reflecting telescopes (Chile, US)
- 1970 Commercial videophone service (US)
- 1970 Imlac PDS-1 first personal graphics computer
- 1971 John V. Blankenbaker offers the Kenbak-1, the first personal computer marketed commercially! (US)
- 1971 8" Floppy disk developed at IBM (US)
- 1971 Gary Boone & Michael Cochran develop TMS 1000 microprocessor (US)
- 1971 Marcian Edward "Ted" Hoff invents 4004 microprocessor for Intel (US)
- 1972 Intel develops 1st 8-Bit processor, the 8008 (US)
- 1972 Intel MCS-4-based SIM4 first microcomputer
- 1972 HP 9830 first desktop all-in-one computer
- 1972 Odyssey first video game manufactured by Magnavox (US)
- 1972 Noland Bushnell creates Atari Pong
- 1973 Don Wetzel and Tom Barnes patent ATM (US)
- 1973 First TV pictures from planet Jupiter Pioneer 10
- 1973 Micral computer manufactured by R2E, 1st computer based on the Intel 8008 microprocessor sells for $1,750 (France)
- 1973 Don Lancaster develops TV Typewriter 1st device to display characters on a TV set
- 1973 HP65 first programmable calculator
- 1974 Micro Instrumentation Telemetry Systems (MITS) Altair home computer kit (US)
- 1974 First mouse input device used on the Alto developed by Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
- 1974 Jon Titus offers Mark 8 first microcomputer kit with plans published in a popular magazine
- 1974 Erno Rubik invents the Rubik’s cube (Hungary)
- 1975 IBM's first personal computer the IBM 5100
- 1975 Bill Gates and Paul Allen write BASIC for the Altair (US)
- 1975 Xerox develops Ethernet (US)
- 1975 First LCD’s marketed (Britain)
- 1975 Sony markets Betamax first VCR for home video
- 1976 JVC introduces the VHS format
- 1976 Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak release Apple 1 kits (US)
- 1976 Al Shugart introduces 5.25" floppy (US)
- 1976 Cray1 Super Computer vector processor released by Cray Research(US)
- 1977 Dennis C. Hayes invented the PC modem (US)
- 1977 Tandy Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 1(US)
- 1977 Apple II released by Apple Computer (US)
- 1978 Digital Equipment introduces 32-bit computer VAX with virtual address extension (US)
- 1978 1st 16-bit microprocessor 8086 by Intel (US)
- 1978 Philips markets the first video laser disc player
- 1979 Daniel Bricklin & Robert Frankston author Visicalc First Spread Sheet software
- 1979 Motorola introduces the 68000 microprocessor with 24-bit Reading Memory with 16 megabytes addressable (US)
- 1979 Palo Alto Research Center develops Graphical User Interface with mouse (US)
- 1979 First Cellular Telephone System (Japan)
1980-89
- 1980 Sony introduces the Walkman portable stereo with headphones
- 1980 IBM demonstrates first voice recognition system with System/370 Model 168 (US)
- 1981 DOS 1.00 Software Released operating system for IBM PC (US)
- 1981 IBM PC released (first computer using the Disk Operating System) (US)
- 1981 Osborne 1 computer released, first all in one luggable with drives, monitor and processor in one case (US)
- 1982 Columbia Data Systems and Compaq release PC Clones with DOS (US)
- 1983 First CD Players developed by Sony and Phillips
- 1983 Synthesizer by Kurzweil stores sounds of 30 instruments
- 1983 Apple Lisa1 released, first computer using mouse and graphic user interface (US)
- 1984 Portable compact disc player released
- 1984 first hifi stereo VCR’s released
- 1984 MIDI is introduced for standardizing the interface of digital instruments and computers
- 1984 Macintosh personal computer by Apple Computer introducing icon driven MAC OS with Graphical User Interface(US)
- 1984 NEC manufactures 256 K chips (Japan)
- 1985 Stereo TV broadcasting initiated
- 1985 Microsoft develops Windows for the IBM PC (US)
- 1985 Cellular telephones released for use in cars
- 1985 Seiko-Epson releases 2 inch LCD screen color TV (Japan)
- 1986 DAT (digital audio tape) demonstrated (Japan)
- 1986 Compaq DeskPro first PC with 32 bit Intel 80386 (US)
- 1988 First transatlantic optical fiber cable
- 1988 Sales of CD’s top LP’s in the music industry
- 1989 Japan initiates daily broadcasts in HDTV large TV format (Japan)
1990-1999
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