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350
Million Years BC The first tetrapods leave the oceans
30,000
BC to 20,000 BC Carving notches into bones
8500
BC Bone carved with prime numbers discovered
1900 BC
to 1800 BC The first place-value number system
1000 BC
to 500 BC The invention of the abacus
383 BC
to 322 BC Aristotle and the Tree of Porphyry
300 BC
to 600 AD The first use of zero and negative numbers
1274 AD
Ramon Lull's Ars Magna
1285 AD
to 1349 AD William of Ockham's logical transformations
1434 AD
The first self-striking water clock
1500 AD
Leonardo da Vinci's mechanical calculator
1600 AD
John Napier and Napier's Bones
1621 AD
The invention of the slide rule
1625 AD
Wilhelm Schickard's mechanical calculator
1640 AD
Blaise Pascal's Arithmetic Machine
1658 AD
Pascal creates a scandle
1670 AD
Gottfried von Leibniz's Step Reckoner
1714 AD
The first English typewriter patent
1726 AD
Jonathan Swift writes Gulliver's Travels
1735 AD
The Billiard cue is invented
1761 AD
Leonhard Euler's geometric system for problems in class logic
1800 AD
Jacquard's punched cards
Circa
1800 AD Charles Stanhope invents the Stanhope Demonstrator
1822 AD
Charles Babbage's Difference Engine
1829 AD
Sir Charles Wheatstone invents the accordion
1829 AD
The first American typewriter patent
1830 AD
Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine
1834 AD
Georg and Edward Scheutz's Difference Engine
1834 AD
Tally sticks: The hidden dangers
1837 AD
Samuel Morse invents the electric telegraph
1847 AD
to 1854 AD George Boole invents Boolean Algebra
1857 AD
Sir Charles Wheatstone uses paper tape to store data
1860 AD
Sir Joseph Wilson Swan's first experimental light bulb
1865 AD
Lewis Carroll writes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
1867 AD
The first commercial typewriter
1868
AD First skeletons of Cro-Magnon man discovered
1869 AD
William Stanley Jevons invents the Jevons' Logic Machine
1872 AD
Lewis Carroll writes Through the Looking-Glass
Circa
1874 AD The Sholes keyboard
1876 AD
Lewis Carroll writes The Hunting of the Snark
1876 AD
George Barnard Grant's Difference Engine
1878 AD
The first true incandescent light bulb
1878 AD
The first shift-key typewriter
1879 AD
Robert Harley publishes article on the Stanhope Demonstrator
1880 AD
The invention of the Baudot Code
1881 AD
Allan Marquand's rectangular logic diagrams
1881 AD
Allan Marquand invents the Marquand Logic Machine
1883 AD
Thomas Alva Edison discovers the Edison Effect
1886 AD
Lewis Carroll writes The game of Logic
1886 AD
Charles Pierce links Boolean algebra to circuits based on switches
1890 AD
John Venn invents Venn Diagrams
1890 AD
Herman Hollerith's tabulating machines
Circa
1900 AD John Ambrose Fleming invents the vacuum tube
1902 AD
The first teleprinters
1906 AD
Lee de Forest invents the Triode
1921 AD
Karel Capek's R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)
1926 AD
First patent for a semiconductor transistor
1927 AD
Vannevar Bush's Differential Analyser
Circa
1936 AD The Dvorak keyboard
1936 AD
Benjamin Burack constructs the first electrical logic machine
1937 AD
George Robert Stibitz's Complex Number Calculator
1937
AD Alan Turing invents the Turing Machine
1938 AD
Claude Shannon's master's Thesis
1939
AD John Vincent Atanasoff's special-purpose electronic digital computer
1939 AD
to 1944 AD Howard Aiken's Harvard Mark I (the IBM ASCC)
1940 AD
The first example of remote computing
1941 AD
Konrad Zuse and his Z1, Z3, and Z4
1943 AD
Alan Turing and COLOSSUS
1943
AD to 1946 AD The first general-purpose electronic computer -- ENIAC
1944 AD
to 1952 AD The first stored program computer -- EDVAC
1945 AD
The "first" computer bug
1945 AD
Johann (John) Von Neumann writes the "First Draft"
1947 AD
First point-contact transistor
1948 AD
to 1951 AD The first commercial computer -- UNIVAC
1949 AD
EDSAC performs it's first calculation
1949 AD
The first assembler -- "Initial Orders"
Circa
1950 AD Maurice Karnaugh invents Karnaugh Maps
1950 AD
First bipolar junction transistor
1952 AD
G.W.A. Dummer conceives integrated circuits
1953 AD
First TV Dinner
1957 AD
IBM 610 Auto-Point Computer
1958 AD
First integrated circuit
1962 AD
First field-effect transistor
1962 AD
The "worst" computer bug
1963 AD
MIT's LINC Computer
1970 AD
First static and dynamic RAMs
1971 AD
CTC's Datapoint 2200 Computer
1971 AD
The Kenbak-1 Computer
1971 AD
The first microprocessor: the 4004
1972 AD
The 8008 microprocessor
1973 AD
The Xerox Alto Computer
1973 AD
The Micral microcomputer
1973 AD
The Scelbi-8H microcomputer
1974 AD
The 8080 microprocessor
1974 AD
The 6800 microprocessor
1974 AD
The Mark-8 microcomputer
1975 AD
The 6502 microprocessor
1975 AD
The Altair 8800 microcomputer
1975 AD
Bill Gates and Paul Allen found Microsoft
1975 AD
The KIM-1 microcomputer
1975 AD
The Sphere 1 microcomputer
1976 AD
The Z80 microprocessor
1976 AD
The Apple I and Apple II microcomputers
1977 AD
The Commodore PET microcomputer
1977 AD
The TRS-80 microcomputer
1979 AD
The VisiCalc spreadsheet program
1979 AD
ADA programming language is named after Ada Lovelace
1980 AD
Danny Cohen writes "On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace"
1981 AD
The first IBM PC
1997
AD The first Beboputer Virtual Computer
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